J Spades Quotes

#1. If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

Michael Shannon

#2. There is no greater will on earth than the will to survive. These fine people, answering my father's call to arms, had the will in spades and droves.
- Lord Tristan Dracanburh, Ethandun

Alexandra May

#3. The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.

Jean Piaget

#4. The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left
the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.

Farouk Of Egypt

#5. I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.

Jonathan Swift

#6. That unsounded ocean you gasp in, is Life; those sharks, your foes; those spades, your friends; and what between sharks and spades you are in a sad pickle and peril, poor lad.

Herman Melville

#7. I never want the art of reviewing to ever feel like a chore.

Queen Of Spades

#8. Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu.
"I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter.
"Then let's do it. That's us in spades.

Orson Scott Card

#9. There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper crisis.

Os Guinness

#10. How very kind of her, ' I said. 'I must remember to send her a card.'
I'd send her a card alright. It would be the Ace of Spades, and I'd mail it anonymously from somewhere other than Bishop's Lacey.

Alan Bradley

#11. Life is too short to hold back, so live It as if It's not guaranteed.

Queen Of Spades

#12. With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

William Cowper

#13. I looked at the cards in my hand, the queen of hearts nestled between the king of clubs and the king of spades. No wonder she was smiling.

Megan Hart

#14. There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than from spades.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. Watch for the ace of spades, which is the sign of death, and the ace of clubs, which designates the official of the night.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#16. All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. You may have learned from your mother or any other hunted woman. Smiling at devils is a useful learned thing. Swallowing discomfort down in spades. Holding it tight in your belly. Ageing on the inside only. Keeping it forever sexy.

Yrsa Daley-Ward

#18. If people screw me, I screw back in spades.

Donald Trump

#19. There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.

Michael Shermer

#20. A picture began to emerge of a woman who possessed hope and optimism and gumption in spades in spite of wretched relatives and a world that never took much notice of her.

Maya Rodale

#21. Attitude is everything. I should know, I get it in spades from everyone from the house help to the dhobi.

Manasi Vaidya

#22. How empty life is and without meaning. - We bury a man, we follow him to the grave, we throw three spades of earth on him, we ride out in a coach, we ride home in a coach, we take comfort in the thought that a long life awaits us. But how long is threescore years and ten? Why not finish it at once?

Soren Kierkegaard

#23. Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing.

Shirley Hibberd

#24. Haste and panic were poor traveling companions, and this trip he'd reaped the consequences in spades.

Laura Frantz

#25. Anyone can be a fool, but the one recognizes it and admits it is on the path to wisdom.

Queen Of Spades

#26. Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.

Pia Zadora

#27. I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey ... ' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'

Henry Louis Gates

#28. Richmond's newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed him "Granny" Lee or "The King Of Spades," because he insisted that his men dig trenches on Sewell Mountain.

Clint Johnson

#29. Proper, deep, enduring joy usually requires a remarkable facility for denial, something which the Danes have in spades.

Michael Booth

#30. These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

Plutarch

#31. Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

Diana Gabaldon

#32. My motto is: Always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.

Donald J. Trump