George Washington Quotes

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

George Washington

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• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Best
  • Worst
  • Prepare

• I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Want
  • Information
  • Given

• Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Hard Work

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Help
  • Desire
  • Always

• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Tea

• No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Business
  • Pretty

• I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Great
  • Money

• I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Marriage

• If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Like
  • Abraham Lincoln

• Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

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

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Business
  • Running
  • Competition

• I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • World
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Years

• Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Want
  • Fool

• When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Live
  • You

• It was an honour to be a part of that series. I still get fan mail every day for that show; a big portion of my fan base is from 'Gilmore Girls.'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Show

• There are Jews who came from 102 countries and speak 81 languages - how do you consolidate them into one nation? This is where I saw my role.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Speak
  • Nation
  • Jews

• It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Good
  • Important
  • May

• Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • May
  • Free

• In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the world like a hungry young lion.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • World
  • Boxing
  • Lion

• True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge.

  

  Confucius
  • Knows
  • Limitations
  • True Knowledge

• To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

  

  George Washington
  • Evil
  • Speak
  • Gossip