John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

Be content that others have position, if thou hast ability: that others have riches, if thou hast virtue.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Myself

• Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Believe
  • Feel
  • I Believe

• Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Think
  • Civilization

• Vegetarians in general don't like me.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Me
  • Like
  • General

• Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Character
  • Underneath

• In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Financial
  • Wealth
  • Crisis

• Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Done
  • Think
  • Best

• I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Learning

• Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Know
  • Alone

• For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Man is a victim of dopeIn the incurable form of hope.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Hope

• An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that 'when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Wisdom
  • Victory

• We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.

  

  Lawrence Summers
  • World
  • Free
  • Respect

• I'm of the school that you've got to show a distinction between Democrats and Republicans. And in order to have the base energized, you've got to show that the party stands for something.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • School
  • Party

• There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World,' which was based on a teen book, and it's a fabulous story, and hopefully it'll go to theaters because it is an amazing story.

  

  Lili Simmons
  • World
  • Book
  • Movie

• Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important events live to all its viewers. As an event, the Winter Games fail on the most basic level. They're lousy to watch.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Important
  • Live
  • Winter

• There are so many new young poets, novelists, and playwrights who are much less politically committed than the former generations. The trend is to be totally concentrated on the literary aesthetic and to consider politics to be something dirty that shouldn't be mixed with an artistic or a literary vocation.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Dirty
  • Aesthetic

• If I see myself on a worst-dressed list - and I've been on many of them - I tend to have low self esteem for 24 hours. I just like to feel comfortable, and I like being excited about whatever it is I'm wearing. I hate subjecting myself to that kind of criticism!

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Hate
  • Criticism

• It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

  

  Joan Fontaine
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Shame

• It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • Friend
  • Enough
  • Friendly

• Be content that others have position, if thou hast ability: that others have riches, if thou hast virtue.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding