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
  • Name
  • Year
  • 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

• I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale.

  

  Frank Gehry

• Never let a short term desire get in the way of a long term goal.

  

  Curtis Martin
  • Desire
  • Goal
  • Term

• When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am.

  

  Ashley Greene
  • Crazy
  • Star
  • Dance

• My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

  

  Jesse James Garrett
  • Work
  • Different
  • Job

• She thought of Jonah and regretted that she hadn’t really forgiven him as she’d promised. Holding a grudge suddenly seemed so contrary to her own happiness, so pointless. What good was it? No good, because it kept them apart. She wished she could tell him she was finally ready to start over and make it work, to forgive Adriana, as well.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Happiness
  • Promised
  • Forgiven

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

  

  John Lancaster Spalding