George Washington Quotes

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

George Washington

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• When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • People
  • Like
  • Hands

• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Patience
  • Alcohol
  • Stupidity

• My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Always
  • Hands
  • Tomorrow

• The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Hands
  • Class
  • Ignorant

• If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Want
  • Government
  • Hands

• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Different
  • Science
  • Hands

• The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Hands
  • Horse
  • Monday

• Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • True
  • Hand
  • Struggle

• Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Life
  • Morning
  • My Life

• When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • You
  • Hands
  • Fate

• I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Believe
  • Hands
  • Wealth

• I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Hands
  • Standpoint
  • Shake

• The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Power
  • Future
  • Hands

• I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Children
  • Family
  • Hands

• Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Hands
  • Television
  • Rules

• Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Power
  • Today
  • Freedom

• My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Hands
  • Fate
  • Allah

• The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Pass

• When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fall
  • Hands
  • Winter

• Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Marriage
  • Being
  • Course

• She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Heart
  • She
  • Suffering

• On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on - and yet at a certain point, I had a feeling that reminded me how I felt when I was shooting L.A. Confidential. I analyzed it for a while, and thought about how emotionally involved I was with the characters. Then I realized that in both movies, there are three main male characters and one female, and all of them are struggling to figure out what they're doing with their lives, independent of each other.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Funny

• Everything has positive and negative consequences.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Positive
  • Negative

• An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

  

  George Washington
  • Hands
  • Drinking
  • Alcohol