William Archibald Spooner Quotes

The Lord is a shoving leopard.

William Archibald Spooner

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• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Person
  • Honor
  • Reward

• You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • Keep
  • Prize

• Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Great
  • Style
  • Curiosity

• I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • More
  • Conscious
  • Rapper

• The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Through

• I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Small
  • First
  • West

• Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Life
  • Water
  • Quality

• The night had passed completely. The morning star shone in the sky. I too had become a different person. The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded - and devoured - by a black flame.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Different
  • Soul
  • Night

• I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.

  

  John Travolta
  • Thinking
  • Football
  • Looks

• Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Pride
  • Means
  • Master

• God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Spirit
  • Reveal

• I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Moving
  • Model
  • Evolve

• When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was gone. I stayed home for six years to take care of him but, at some point, I also felt I had to go back to work.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Work
  • Home
  • Hate

• Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Men
  • Real
  • Free

• I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground---the refuge and eternal protection of the temple.

  

  Quentin L. Cook

• I pray for my nation, South Africa. As Jesus stood in the boat and commanded the storms to be calm, I stand in the midst of the storm in my nation, South Africa and I command the storm, wind and waves to be calm, in the name of Jesus! I speak calmness to my nation, South Africa, in the name of Jesus!

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Jesus
  • Wind
  • Calm

• You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mistake
  • Busy

• What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can’t claim salvation. Baptizing him in water will not settle the trouble, unless you keep him under.

  

  J. Golden Kimball
  • God
  • Water
  • Liar

• They say he goes to it with every stable boy and every young buck at the court, and where will that get him when all know it is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, and one day the devil will stick a red-hot poker up his nether parts for all damnation.

  

  Colin Falconer
  • Devil
  • Sin
  • Lord

• I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

  

  Len Wein
  • School
  • Art
  • Hope

• Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Success

• The Lord is a shoving leopard.

  

  William Archibald Spooner
  • Lord
  • Leopards