John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Different
  • School
  • High

• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Realize
  • How
  • Anymore

• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Blind

• Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Community
  • Dance

• I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Judge
  • Outspoken

• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Character
  • You

• The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • Me
  • Clothes
  • Sharing

• For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Years
  • Said
  • Being

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Dog
  • Judge

• The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • People
  • Government
  • Innocent

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Strength
  • Both
  • Femininity

• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Moral
  • Wine

• I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Inspiration
  • Desires
  • Doubts

• I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Great
  • Playing
  • Role

• When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Darkness
  • Go
  • Turn

• Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Mistake

• Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Mind
  • Sometimes
  • Angel

• Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Power
  • Control
  • Communication

• Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Evil
  • Goodness
  • Vice

• Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquidity planning by major financial firms pose for the broader financial system, and they must ensure that these firms do not become excessively reliant on liquidity support from the central bank.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Support
  • Financial
  • Planning

• There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Mistake
  • Devil
  • Angel