George Washington Quotes

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

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• Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Music
  • Men
  • Man

• When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Men
  • Service

• One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Respect

• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Man
  • Me

• Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Men
  • Women
  • Know

• And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • God
  • Men
  • May

• The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Men
  • Health
  • First

• I think 'Indiana Jones' was a lot of fun to do because of the places we went to and the adventures and the action. But Han Solo was also a huge part of my life.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Action

• I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men
  • Children
  • Evil

• The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Heart
  • Understanding
  • Should

• I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Good
  • Men
  • Water

• We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Power
  • Dying

• You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Up
  • Action

• As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Men
  • Country

• "This is some hard-core, triple-X, keep-it-in-the-back-room-under-a-curtain, Alice in Wonderland action is what this is,” Decibel said with total delight.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Action
  • Hardcore
  • Alice in Wonderland

• I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.

  

  Gene Kranz
  • Should
  • Everyone
  • Parade

• The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Life
  • Children
  • Parents

• People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

  

  Dennis Potter
  • People
  • May

• A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Action
  • Should