Calvinistical Quotes & Sayings

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. — Edward Gibbon

Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones. — Stephen King

This leads to the idea of a race between education and technology: if the supply of skills does not increase at the same pace as the needs of technology, then groups whose training is not sufficiently advanced will earn less and be relegated to devalued lines of work, and inequality with respect to labor will increase. In order to avoid this, the educational system must increase its supply of new types of training and its output of new skills at a sufficiently rapid pace. If equality is to decrease, moreover, the supply of new skills must increase even more rapidly, especially for the least well educated. — Thomas Piketty

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. — Alexander Pope

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it. — B.W. Powe

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. — Maria Montessori

The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching. — John Adams

She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well. — Anne Cameron

I shut down again. I went blank. One minute I was spinning, and the next minute my mind was dragging itself around in a circle, like an old arthritic dog trying to lie down. And then I just turned off and went to sleep, but not sleep in the way you do every night. Think a long, dark sleep where you don't dream at all. — Jennifer Niven

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope. — Michael Ian Black

I don't regret nuthin... — Keith Richards

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance. — Peter Drucker

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there. — Arthur Conan Doyle

She was nearly gone, and I could just barely make out tears sparkling in her eyes. " I know you will. I believe in you. I always have."
" I love you."
"I love you too."
She was gone. — Richelle Mead