John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
-
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
-
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
-
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
-
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
-
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
-
I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
-
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
-
I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
-
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
-
People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
-
It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
-
My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
-
I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
-
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
-
We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.
-
You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
-
When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.
-
The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?
-
I didn't understand why people cared about my hair or my makeup or my clothing. It was like, 'I'm a prosecutor. I'm not a model. I'm not an actress.'
-
I’m still spry, but I feel the teeth gnawing, and believe me, my friends, it was better to be young.
-
The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.
-
Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
