John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

True readers … are ready to go through a whole volume, if there be but hope of finding in it a single genuine thought or the mere suggestion even of a truth which has some fresh application to life.

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• Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Absolute

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Variety

• I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Life
  • Different
  • Always

• I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Live
  • True
  • Think

• When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Life
  • Audience
  • Sharing

• Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren't going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don't have dumbbells and benches.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Gym
  • Train
  • Hotel

• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Light
  • Single

• Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Different
  • Hope

• Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Life
  • Guy
  • You

• Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Boredom

• I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • You
  • Museums
  • Furniture

• When you watch a tea ceremony, every single movement, every single gesture is very calculated. It's very precise, and it's all protocol. It's all a part of the system. And it's almost like they've sacrificed every single thing to make that perfect. It's like their craft.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Perfect
  • Single
  • Tea

• Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

  

  Al Capp
  • Art

• I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open on golden hinges to lovers of Union as well as lovers of liberty.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • American
  • Fly

• Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Done
  • War
  • Ideas

• True readers … are ready to go through a whole volume, if there be but hope of finding in it a single genuine thought or the mere suggestion even of a truth which has some fresh application to life.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life
  • Truth
  • True