George Washington Quotes

Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.

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• I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

  

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• If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.

  

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• For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.

  

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• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

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• I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.

  

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• I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

  

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• Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

  

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• Not even close, ... Once I can transfer my weight to my front leg and just do it with a lot of force, and I don't even think about it, the home runs will come.

  

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• You have to be the first, best or different.

  

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• Everybody blows their first money.

  

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• I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.

  

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• Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

  

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• The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

  

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• We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.

  

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• It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

  

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• The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

  

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• Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have lived up at all times to the injunctions of their own mystical center. For instance, when I went to Sunday school, I remember learning more about Jewish history than about God. So, once again, that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the Jewish religion, it just means that sometimes people are not fed the mystical food - the spiritual food - of their own religious background.

  

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• It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

  

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• In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

  

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• If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?

  

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• But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?

  

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• Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.

  

  George Washington
  • Force
  • Firsts
  • Instance