John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Movie

• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Government
  • Universe

• I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Happy

• Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Eating

• Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Society
  • Words

• I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Very
  • Theater
  • Veterans

• The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Best
  • Gold
  • Redemption

• Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up
  • Good
  • Education

• The world is still sexist.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • World
  • Still
  • Sexist

• If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • Men
  • Me
  • Hand

• My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.

  

  Vash Young
  • Job
  • Girl
  • Fruit

• When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Chance

• My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Men

• Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life

• I don't want to be someone that, when people look back, they think, 'Yeah, cool, he made us jump around for a bit in 2010.'

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • People
  • Cool
  • Jump

• I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Remember

• I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

  

  Frank Gorshin
  • Words

• We have to realize we are building a movement.

  

  Dorothy Height

• As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Might
  • Wells
  • Pops

• Peace before everything, God before anything, Love before anything, real before everything, Home before any place, shoot before anything, Style and state radiate, Love Power slay the hate.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • God
  • Love
  • Power

• Directing myself definitely made me a better actor. And, you know, I think actors have the best track record when they turn to directing. Writers, too. I knew how to direct actors because I've been there and I know what I like.

  

  Matt Dillon

• Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really fit into Hollywood's business model any longer. Even if 'Chef' is successful, it will be successful in the context of what it is. There's a limited upside to a film that's so small, but there's also limited exposure for the people who backed me.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • People
  • Business
  • Small

• I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Wife
  • Painting
  • Summer

• If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding