John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
Garrett Hardin
When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, 'Hi! How are you?' And I'm like, 'Oh, hi!' And then I realize, 'Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.' Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.
Dakota Fanning
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
C. J. Cherryh
I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
Jackson Rathbone
No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
Nancy Thayer
If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
Adam Hamilton
There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
Val Kilmer
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.
Umberto Eco
I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.
Carlton Cuse
I keep saying I'm going to cut back on styling, but it's hard to give up.
Rachel Zoe
Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.
Dan Butler
You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?
Sally Hawkins
Though I am, as you know, a pacifist by nature, I am not disposed to go to all lengths to meet people who seem to be behaving with utter unreason.
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, those limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.
Dan Simmons
Eventually, I would love to be on my deathbed and looked at as an icon. Right now I'm still at the baby stages of my career. But that is the goal.
Kesha
In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
August Krogh
I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.
Dean Karnazes
We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
John Lancaster Spalding
