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

• Ideally there should not be a men’s movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women’s movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men’s movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• 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
  • Producing

• 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

• Get out of your mind that you can be a woman like me, all you’d succeed in being is what a woman is according to you men. You can copy me, make a portrait as precise as an artist, but my shit will always remain mine, and yours will be yours.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Woman
  • Artist
  • Succeed

• We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Science

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

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Succeed
  • Blame