George Washington Quotes

Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.

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• I was a tomboy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Tomboy

• Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Intelligence
  • Dry

• Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • She
  • America
  • Same

• People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Why
  • Interesting

• I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Skill

• I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.

  

  Faye Resnick
  • Professional
  • Actress

• I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Political
  • Feel
  • Tragedy

• When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Horror
  • Making
  • Sounds

• I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Life
  • Real
  • Wish

• In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Business
  • Running
  • Competition

• Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Country
  • Problems
  • Cutting

• I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Learned
  • Keep
  • Got

• My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • Long
  • She

• My life has been a series of emergencies.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Emergencies

• The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Principles

• There are very few fighters in the ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria coming from the United States; most of them have either come from a region of the Middle East or from Europe.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Organization
  • Europe

• I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Family
  • Home
  • Proud

• Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

  

  E. F. Schumacher

• For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip.

  

  Haddon W. Robinson
  • People
  • God
  • Giving

• Normally, I try to stay away from playing security guard-type characters, the stereotypical, big man fare. And I've been pretty blessed, man, and successful at getting out of the box.

  

  Omar Benson Miller
  • Pretty
  • Blessed

• Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Morning
  • Strength
  • Read

• What we have called the "law" of creation, therefore, is both compelling (laws of nature) and appealing (norms), and the range of its validity can be both sweeping (general) and individualized (particular).

  

  Albert M. Wolters
  • Law
  • Creation
  • Validity

• Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.

  

  George Washington
  • Giving
  • Advice