Quotes of: Calvinism Keyword

When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

Jerry Reinsdorf

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

Alva Myrdal

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

Jim Doyle

Republicans know that government spending creates jobs. They just want that spending to be funneled to their projects and districts... and they certainly don't want to say it out loud.

Jennifer Granholm

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.

John Jay Hooker

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

Rod Parsley

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

Ernest Istook

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

Christine Gregoire

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

Clarence Thomas

Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.

Ken Starr

Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called '...

Martha Beck

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

Catharine MacKinnon

What am I, a Frankenstein? What am I, some kind of an ogre? I'm a good person; I'm a warm person.

Donald Sterling

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

Elliott Abrams

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

George Mason

I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

George Mason

The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.

Joe Andrew

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

John Roberts

I love fried chips, but they weren't good for you, and I didn't like the healthy options like rice chips.

Keith Belling

I'm a snacker, but also health-conscious. I thought there had to be an alternative to what was out there. But it had to taste good - if it doesn't taste good, it isn't a snack.

Keith Belling

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.

Sonia Sotomayor