George Washington Quotes

Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.

George Washington

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• I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Work
  • Done
  • Creativity

• I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Character
  • Crazy

• Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Money
  • You
  • Finance

• The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Different
  • Situation
  • Libya

• You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

  

  Rand Paul
  • History
  • Black
  • Party

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

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Live
  • You

• I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • Family
  • Quality

• What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Real
  • Relationship

• I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Money
  • Effort
  • Successful

• I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Work
  • Home
  • Proud

• When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • God
  • Book

• Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Love
  • Scripture

• Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Work
  • May

• Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Death
  • Free
  • Bed

• St. Jerome declares that he holds for certain, and has learned from experience, that he will never make a good end who has led a bad life to the very last: 'This I hold, this I have learned by much experience, that his will be an evil end who has always led an evil life.'

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Life
  • Good
  • Experience

• We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Choices

• When we're talking about our title tracks, 'DNA' is about the expression of a young, passionate love.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Young
  • Expression
  • Passionate

• Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Madman

• I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Mankind
  • Myths
  • Richard Dawkins

• Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Life
  • Time

• Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.

  

  George Washington
  • Passionate
  • Particular
  • Essentials