John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

If thou canst not hold the golden mean, say and do too little rather than too much.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Great
  • Night
  • Attitude

• I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Thinking
  • School

• I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Writing
  • You
  • Students

• If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Know
  • Question
  • Questions

• To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

  

  Quintilian
  • Man
  • Swear
  • Honorable

• While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.

  

  Samantha Power
  • History
  • Make A Difference

• When you're rich you don't write checks.

  

  Randy Moss
  • You
  • Write
  • Rich

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Racism
  • Asian

• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Great
  • Player
  • Defeat

• As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Change
  • Institutions

• As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • America
  • Political
  • Latin

• I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Long
  • Action

• The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Funny

• The dead don't die. They look on and help.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Help
  • Die

• 'Cause I can't help it if you look like an angel;Can't help it if I wanna kiss you in the rain, so...Come feel this magic I've been feelin' since I met you,Can't help it if there's no one else.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Help
  • Magic
  • Rain

• The human race has only two unlimited capacities: one for suffering and one for lying. I want to fight religion as the root of all human lying and the only excuse for human suffering.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Suffering

• I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.

  

  Adnan Pachachi
  • Apology

• If I'm feeling healthy - like, I've eaten well and have drank a lot of water and have clothes that feel good - I feel good.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Water

• People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • People
  • Band
  • Need

• If thou canst not hold the golden mean, say and do too little rather than too much.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding