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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

  

  Kiana Tom
  • Friends

• I think that the story of a woman who is coming into her powers can really happen at any age.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Age

• There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Black
  • Interesting

• When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

  

  Plato
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Trained

• As a teenager, I was involved in animal rights activism, and followed the tail end of the first wave of AIDS awareness – I was going to protests, and plugged in to all these causes, but I never really made the connection to electoral politics.

  

  Justin Brannan Caninus
  • Politics
  • Activism
  • Protests

• People often ask whether Obama passes the 'kishka test:' whether he likes Israel special, not in the same way he likes Taiwan or South Korea? Does he? I think the kishka test was decided when he visited Israel. I think the reaction there was emotional and genuine.

  

  Michael Oren
  • Emotional
  • Special
  • Decided

• People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Men
  • Earth

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

  

  John Lancaster Spalding