John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

The value of a mind is measured by the nature of the objects it habitually contemplates. They whose thoughts are of trifles are trifling: they who dwell with what is eternally true, good and fair, are like unto God.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
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  • Forgotten
  • Plato

• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Civil Rights

• Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'

  

  J. August Richards
  • Think
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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Remember
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• I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Liar

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
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• This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Me

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Were
  • Royalty
  • Descended

• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Action
  • Key

• I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Success
  • Face
  • Conventional

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Time
  • Always
  • Try

• In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Love
  • Job
  • True

• I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Going

• I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Truth
  • Problem
  • Stereotypes

• Boxing is my true calling. I've found my purpose in life.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Life
  • True
  • Purpose

• The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

  

  Socrates
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Right

• I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.

  

  David Miliband
  • Country
  • Society

• We're a really close family, and that was what my grandparents promoted.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • Family
  • Grandparents

• Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

  

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• The value of a mind is measured by the nature of the objects it habitually contemplates. They whose thoughts are of trifles are trifling: they who dwell with what is eternally true, good and fair, are like unto God.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind