George Washington Quotes

To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

George Washington

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• Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Anticipate

• For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Support
  • Natural
  • Scientific

• They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.

  

  Preston Brooks
  • Law

• The job of elected leaders is to deliver results that represent the interests of the citizens who placed them in a position of authority with their voice, their vote. But these days, money talks louder.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Money
  • Job

• Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.

  

  Anthony Davis
  • People
  • Good
  • Worry

• The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Up
  • May
  • Amazing

• I don't anticipate having him in the near future. But as I told him, we're nearly two months away from playing games, and a lot can happen in two months.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Future
  • Two
  • Happen

• We'll see. At this point, we anticipate him playing. Start or not depends on how we feel practice is going, what we feel we need to do. Depending on what further happens from here, we'll see.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Practice
  • Feel
  • Depends

• I didn't anticipate all that's happened and who we've missed.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Missed
  • Anticipate

• Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on.

  

  David Malouf
  • Fiction
  • Willingness
  • Elsewhere

• Working to anticipate the future can be a distraction from the important task of dealing with the present.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Important
  • Tasks
  • Distraction

• We are here to celebrate the upcoming merger along with honoring the past of two great airlines. The merger is proceeding well and we anticipate closing the deal in late September or early October.

  

  Doug Parker
  • September
  • Celebrate
  • October

• I would anticipate there will be some additional allocations.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Anticipate
  • Allocations

• In my case, my size is so small that if I want it but don't buy it, I might miss the opportunity.

  

  Marie Kondo
  • Opportunity
  • Small

• A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Purpose
  • Spiritual

• If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as a salesman. Schooling, college degrees, intellect, brilliancy, are of no avail to the man who lacks the ability to attract the cooperative efforts of others, thus to create opportunities for himself.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • High
  • College

• And I never will be the girl who says sorry. And you should have known right from the start. I needed a hero and I got a zero, so pack your bags and take your broken heart.

  

  Beatrice Miller
  • Girl
  • Sorry
  • Broken Heart

• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Best
  • Evil

• An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Torture
  • Excellent
  • Economist

• It may not always feel wonderful. but you're out there doing it. You're running while others are just walking. Or sitting around. I mean, come on - you're out there running, for goodness sake. You're to be taken seriously.

  

  Deborah Reber
  • Running
  • Wonderful
  • Goodness

• To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

  

  George Washington
  • Anticipate
  • Contingency