George Washington Quotes

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

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• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Trying

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Human

• If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Fail

• Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
  • Women
  • Special

• The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Strong

• I love older men.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Men
  • Love
  • Older Men

• There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Men
  • Change
  • Fashion

• War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Men
  • Country
  • War

• That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• So long as men shall be on earthThere will be tasks for them to do,Some way for them to show their worth;Each day shall bring its problems new.And men shall dream of mightier deedsThan ever have been done before:There always shall be human needsFor men to work and struggle for.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Work
  • Men
  • Long

• Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

  

  Alan Ayckbourn
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• The laws of certain states …give an ownership in the service of negroes as personal property…. But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty-and when the captor in war …thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • God
  • Men
  • War

• Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Succeed
  • Finger
  • Bomb

• Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.

  

  Jeaniene Frost
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Friend

• It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Danger
  • Paint
  • Treading

• Oh, but Paris isn’t for changing planes, it’s… it’s for changing your outlook, for… for throwing open the windows and letting in… letting in la vie en rose.

  

  Sabrina Salerno
  • Paris
  • Rose
  • Window

• The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Important
  • Design

• I would love to be a guys' girl, but they always end up falling in love with me, so I'm a girls' girl instead. I've tried having friendly relationships with men, but it ends up being impossible, and I've been around the block too many times not to see it coming.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Up
  • Men
  • Love

• When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Succeed
  • Blame