John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.John Lancaster Spalding
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
Laini Taylor -
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch -
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher -
Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
J. B. Pritzker -
I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
Iman -
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
Edmund White -
I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the skin above them had become a little loose. And I thought, 'And so it begins!'
Kate Christensen -
Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
Carl D. Anderson -
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
Gabrielle Aplin
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
Ian Somerhalder -
Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
Adam Driver -
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell -
My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
Adam Carolla -
It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
Imran Khan -
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung
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Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
Bernie Siegel -
Let them eat cake.
Marie Antoinette -
I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.
Ned Beauman -
The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.
Nelson Rockefeller -
Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away.
Homer -
Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
John Lancaster Spalding