John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Hope
  • Quality
  • Class

• Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Now
  • Saying

• Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Me
  • Story
  • View

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• I think a lot of officers go into that line of work because they have a calling for it. But at some point, they find themselves in the middle of their lives having seen some of the darkest things that are just unimaginable to the rest of us.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Work
  • Think
  • Rest

• As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Hate
  • Listen

• For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Better
  • Short

• You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Sweet

• Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Done
  • Leaving
  • Australia

• Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Business
  • Ethics
  • Strategy

• I am definitely a worrier.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Definitely
  • Worrier

• Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • College
  • Stupidity
  • Sent

• I felt perhaps 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was a little premature. It was a huge hit around the world - it was still running in the theatres - and the Americans at that time were already shooting the remake, and I was like, 'Whoa! Give it a break of five or six years and get a little inspired, and then do it.'

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • World
  • Girl

• Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Judge
  • Wine

• Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Life
  • Fire
  • Enemy

• Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Reality
  • Changes
  • Fame

• I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'

  

  Allison Janney
  • Today
  • House

• Wer die materiellen Genüsse des Lebens seinen idealen Gütern vorzieht, gleicht dem Besitzer eines Palastes, der sich in den Gesindestuben einrichtet und die Prachtsäle leer stehen lässt.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Die

• Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, 'Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.' Racist people never go, 'Do you mind if I'm racist? Oh, I'll go outside … fucking blue people, eh? Coming here, steal our hamsters …'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Mind
  • Blue

• By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash.

  

  Marg Helgenberger
  • Time
  • May

• If we could see, even for a split second, the depths of God's love for us - all we'd want to do is worship and prayer would never seem a chore.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Prayer
  • Worship
  • Chores

• The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding