George Washington Quotes

It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former.

George Washington

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• What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time
  • Country
  • Night

• I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Time
  • Country
  • Years

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Attacked
  • Destroyers

• The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Feel
  • Brother
  • Youth

• The dose makes the poison.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Poison
  • Makes
  • Dose

• I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Think
  • Years
  • Difference

• Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Interest
  • Decisions
  • Back

• Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • Music
  • God
  • Country

• Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • God
  • Faith
  • Support

• I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Book
  • Know

• Every Sunday I’d take a 20-minute bus ride to his house in Beverley Hills for a one-hour lesson and be there for four hours ... They had four sons, they didn’t have a daughter and I kind of fitted in as the baby of the family.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Family
  • House
  • Baby

• I eat meat, the rarer the better.

  

  Dominique Swain

• I like a girl that keeps me in love and keeps me entertained.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Girl

• I generally do things I'm proud to be in and generally I'm in things people like.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • People
  • Proud

• We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Technology

• I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues.

  

  Jacob Lew
  • Different
  • Important
  • Long

• I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

  

  Klaus Kinski

• My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • Technology
  • Vision
  • Firsts

• I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I see them think it. My height triggers the puppy-kitten reflex- Must touch-and I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Eyes

• To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• In real life, I'm always in tracksuits, and I never wear makeup.

  

  Teresa Palmer
  • Life
  • Real
  • Makeup

• How do we get utopian thinking in a dystopian world? These days we aren't talking to each other - we're screaming and trying to hit each other over the head with rocks and sticks. A primitive fury has been unleashed by a president who has no culture, who cannot read, and who wants to determine power and aggression.

  

  Carolee Schneemann
  • World
  • Thinking
  • President

• It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former.

  

  George Washington
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Character