John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

Taste, of which the proverb says there should be no dispute, is precisely the subject which needs discussion.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Happiness

• What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Party
  • Eye

• I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Year
  • Name
  • Prison

• I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• I like to think of myself as classy.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Classy

• My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Done
  • Mother

• It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Themselves
  • Hang

• I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Trying
  • Matter
  • Big

• I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century, prior to the arrival of Christianity when Paganism flourished. I can always go back there in my imagination, of course. It doesn't cost anything, and it's a form of time travel, I suppose.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Time
  • History
  • Imagination

• I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Reading

• One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Child
  • Facts
  • Forgotten

• I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • You
  • Know
  • Laugh

• I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Different
  • School
  • High

• It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.

  

  Tacitus
  • Service
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Great
  • Know
  • Apple

• It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.

  

  Carl Jung

• I am satisfied it has strengthened my hand tremendously. Nobody but a fool would disregard the kind of result we witnessed today.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Today
  • Hand
  • Fool

• Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Alone

• Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word 'text' unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Hand
  • Eyes
  • Text

• Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and allows awareness to flood through the whole domain of consciousness. It is the human mind operating, for a moment, in its true order and moving through orders of increasing subtlety, reaching past the source of mind and matter into creativity itself.

  

  F. David Peat
  • Epiphanies
  • Mystical Experiences
  • Synchronicities

• The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Heart
  • Here
  • Miami

• I was always taking garbage from around the house and making my own toys. I wasn't given a Wii or an Xbox or anything.

  

  Ann Makosinski
  • House

• It doesn't mean my footballing ideas are special, different, better than the others. I am not saying it's my football, my ideas, and the other coaches are nothing. It's the way I believe. I'm not special.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Football

• Taste, of which the proverb says there should be no dispute, is precisely the subject which needs discussion.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding