Martha Washington Quotes

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

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• Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • May
  • Happy

• 'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Grow
  • Finding
  • Exploring

• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Shoes
  • Year
  • White

• If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Best

• My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Start

• My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Free
  • Practice

• Care and pity are two different things.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Different
  • Care
  • Two

• There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Food
  • Moral
  • Recognition

• Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Great
  • Character
  • Earth

• I have a very positive outlook.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Positive
  • Very
  • Outlook

• I'm a big fan of Georges St-Pierre.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Big Fan

• I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • House
  • Black

• If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.

  

  Larry David
  • Would
  • Miserable
  • Still

• By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Energy
  • Independent
  • Percent

• I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • School
  • High
  • City

• I appeal to the philosophers of all countries to unite and never again mention Heidegger or talk to another philosopher who defends Heidegger. This man was a devil. I mean, he behaved like a devil to his beloved teacher, and he has a devilish influence on Germany. … One has to read Heidegger in the original to see what a swindler he was.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Teacher
  • Devil

• I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • World

• My job is to give my best, and where my journey would take me is something that I have left to God. I am not much of a planner; I am more of a doer.

  

  Vicky Kaushal
  • Job
  • Doer
  • Planner

• But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality.

  

  Alexi Giannoulias
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Depression

• Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends, there must be clear and wise critique, and holding to account.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Wise
  • Temptation

• Reasonable people can disagree about the authorities the NSA should have, when it's appropriate for the CIA to use drone strikes, and how assertive U.S. foreign policy and intelligence should be.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Strikes
  • Authorities
  • Foreign Policy

• The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

  

  Martha Washington