John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Drunkards and sensualists have become heroes and saints; but sluggards have never risen to the significance and worth of human beings. Sloth enfeebles the root of life, and degrades more surely, if less swiftly, than the sins of passion.John Lancaster Spalding
Quotes to Explore
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
W. H. Davies -
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
P. J. O'Rourke -
But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
Sam Donaldson -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso -
I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
Faye Marsay
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
Paris Hilton -
Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
Hari Kondabolu -
We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
Carlos Slim -
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln -
I don't weigh into politics.
Gary Bettman -
I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
Yoko Ono
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
Omari Hardwick -
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Haile Selassie -
I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
Paige VanZant -
A new era of responsibility is here.
Valerie Jarrett -
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken -
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
Ranbir Kapoor
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
Hank Azaria -
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
Rand Paul -
Chanel all the way! Just because not only do they have timeless pieces, but since it is the epitome of class and elegance.
Zendaya -
I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
Victor Hugo -
But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team.
Jerry Jones -
Drunkards and sensualists have become heroes and saints; but sluggards have never risen to the significance and worth of human beings. Sloth enfeebles the root of life, and degrades more surely, if less swiftly, than the sins of passion.
John Lancaster Spalding