George Washington Quotes

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

George Washington

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• Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.

  

  Hannah Kent
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• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
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• My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Game
  • Trouble
  • Iron

• That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Great
  • You
  • Worry

• I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Time
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• I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Directing

• I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Want
  • Me
  • Air

• Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Fun
  • Words

• The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Worry
  • Random
  • Risks

• Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Time
  • Job
  • Worry

• Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Career
  • Worry

• I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Trouble
  • Anxiety
  • Shy

• Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Mother
  • Worry
  • Baby

• What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Culture
  • Worry
  • Internet

• I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• Now you are finally with me, you are safe now. Don't be afraid of anything. You don't have to worry anymore.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Worry

• I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • School
  • Age
  • Mean

• Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

  

  Jamie Lynn Spears
  • Hand

• The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest.

  

  Anne Catherine Emmerich
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Interest

• They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Write
  • Prefaces
  • Charlatan

• Do not believe that you alone can be right. The man who thinks that, The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul - A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

  

  Sophocles
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Maintain

• Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

  

  George Washington
  • Worry
  • Trouble
  • Interest