John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Potential
  • Ending

• When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Happy

• I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • History
  • Creative
  • Looking

• I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Like
  • Awesome
  • Brilliant

• The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Path
  • Broken
  • Friendships

• The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Mind
  • Manners
  • Even

• Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Family
  • Together
  • Changes

• I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Children
  • Job
  • Book

• Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I think, at some point, we have to be followers of Christ - not followers of White Christ, or any other color Christ, for that matter.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Think
  • Color
  • White

• When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Education
  • Students
  • System

• Nothing's better than a picnic.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Better
  • Nothing
  • Picnic

• Ah! Five hundred years I have toiled to entice this creature, despairing, doubting, brooding by night, yet never abandoning hope that my calculations were accurate and my great talisman cogent. Then, when finally it appears, you fall upon it for no other reason than to sate your repulsive gluttony!

  

  Jack Vance
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Night

• If no one is corrupt, no one will be poor.

  

  Benigno Aquino III

• We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate.

  

  Kin Hubbard

• I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Literature

• Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • Originality
  • Origin
  • Returning

• Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.

  

  James Gleick
  • Time
  • Light
  • Distance

• To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isn't there, it's easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, it'll come. It's definitely harder work than some people think.

  

  Alexandra Chando
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Die
  • Writer
  • Martyr

• Inside the ring Enson thinks outside the ring Enson's a pussy.

  

  Enson Inoue
  • Ring
  • Enson

• I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.

  

  Foster Friess
  • America
  • Free
  • Gun

• Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Hope

• If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding