George Washington Quotes

While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.

George Washington

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• In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

  

  Halsey
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• I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

  

  Dana Plato
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• In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

  

  Verne Troyer
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• So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

  

  Randall Terry
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• I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

  

  Haile Selassie
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• But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

  

  Xenophanes
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• Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I have to extend my admiration and respect for Sam Esmail, who is a visionary with what he's done with 'Mr. Robot,' and this brilliant resurgence of Christian Slater only helped us get where we are today - very talented individual.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Done
  • Today
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• A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

  

  O. Henry
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• The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there is nothing known, and therefore nothing to be alleged.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Unknown

• Men who fight wars in Winter don’t live till Spring.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Mind

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

  

  Edmund Burke
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  • Light

• Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attitude

• The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for labor unions; the taxpayer pays the dues for feminism. Feminism and government soon become taxpayer-supported women’s unions.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• Twenty men crossing a bridge, Into a village, Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges, Into twenty villages, Or one man Crossing a single bridge into a village.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

  

  Christopher Columbus
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• The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.

  

  Lori Foster
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  • Children

• One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Evil

• The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • World
  • Mirror

• When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Words

• I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my handsand wrote my will across the sky in stars To gain you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house, that your eyes might be shining for meWhen I came.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • House
  • Freedom

• You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Father

• While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Christian
  • Heaven