George Washington Quotes

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

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• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Good
  • Legs
  • Pitcher

• Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Culture
  • Fast
  • Biology

• In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Better
  • Clean

• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

  Hafez
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Happiness

• The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and the Arab states is extremely limited.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Economy
  • Authority
  • Trade

• I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Time
  • Discovery
  • Fishing

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• America is addicted to wars of distraction.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Wars
  • Distraction

• Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Must
  • Either
  • Apartheid

• I drink therefore I am.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Drink

• Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Real
  • Alone

• I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Believe
  • Prime

• Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Morality

• Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • You
  • Kind
  • President

• I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandwiches,' and that's where they still are. I suspect it's at least in part because they're easy to eat while reading.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Life
  • Man
  • Reading

• I wear glasses because I need them; I don't wear them to be the fashion victim, I have to have them because I have a stigma in one eye and I'm blind in another. But I make it fun, I make it acceptable to fit in society; I've always worn crazy, goofy glasses, it's just what I do. This is who I am. Love me or leave me.

  

  Anastacia
  • Fun
  • Society
  • Fashion

• 'Servants don’t travel with their employers.''How do they do without them?''They don’t.'

  

  Connie Willis
  • Travel

• Whenever an angel says 'Be not afraid!' you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Angel

• Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with.

  

  James Gray

• Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Eye
  • Dog
  • Speak

• I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Changes

• A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.

  

  Roberto Burle Marx
  • Past
  • Mistake
  • Garden

• It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

  

  George Washington
  • Natural
  • Chaos
  • Causes