George Washington Quotes

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

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• A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Movement
  • Elegance
  • Posture

• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

  Harold Evans
  • America
  • Think
  • Future

• I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Like
  • Never
  • Lift

• Europe can be saved.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Europe
  • Saved

• The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Girl
  • Dark
  • Years

• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  

  Ed Markey
  • War
  • Terrorism
  • Engage

• And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Love
  • House

• I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Art
  • Things
  • Religion

• I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Grandfather
  • Blues
  • Did

• It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Work
  • Thought
  • Information

• In all likelihood, you've been treated by a Muslim doctor or served by a Muslim waiter or worked beside a Muslim computer programmer. Even if you think, 'I don't know any Muslims,' it's probably not true.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • True
  • Think
  • Know

• I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stop
  • Reading
  • Present

• My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Nature
  • Mom
  • Little Girls

• It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • I Can

• The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

  

  Major Owens
  • Place
  • Start
  • First

• Everybody knows a guillotine choke, and most know how to get to one. But if you can create a different way to get to that choke, then you're going to surprise people. However, that will only happen one time, because once it gets used that one time, everyone will see that and start to train for it.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • American
  • History

• Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.

  

  Bill Dixon
  • People
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Running
  • Organization

• I think I'm like a young black 20 something artist who's trying to who's trying to like explore their identity through music and other things.

  

  Noname
  • Artist
  • Identity
  • Explore

• You just cannot play that way. We cannot expect our goalie to keep winning games for us.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Game
  • Play
  • Winning

• The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Constitution