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

• 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

• 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

• 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 often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Men

• It is a strong castle, and strongly guarded; but there is no impossibility to brave men.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Brave

• The men of England - the men, I mean of light and leading in England.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Light

• I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Men
  • Alone
  • Adventure

• All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

  

  Mahavira
  • Violence

• I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' or 'La Vie en Rose.' And I love my role in 'Frantic.'

  

  Emmanuelle Seigner
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Rose

• Dilbert: You joined the "Flat Earth Society?" Dogbert: I believe the earth must be flat. There is no good evidence to support the so-called "round earth theory." Dilbert: I think Christopher Columbus would disagree. Dogbert: How convenient that your best witness is dead.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Science

• In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • World
  • Live
  • Truth

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

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Action
  • Should