George Washington Quotes

Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

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• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Want
  • Information
  • Given

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Think

• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Party
  • Years
  • Born

• I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • School
  • High
  • Dance

• 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Dog
  • Judge

• I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Believe
  • Care

• I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Literature
  • See
  • Fiction

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Community
  • Always

• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • World
  • Energy
  • Change

• Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Law
  • Eyes
  • Justice

• I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Know

• Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • You
  • Diversity
  • Unity

• No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • May
  • Together

• In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Sometimes
  • Politics
  • Promise

• When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Humans
  • Computer
  • Capacity

• The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.

  

  William Falconer
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Soul

• The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Art
  • Kings
  • Hatred

• I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Love
  • Want
  • Song

• Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Quality