George Washington Quotes

At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.

George Washington

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• I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Pain
  • Body
  • Ready

• The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Me
  • Animals

• I love the hip-hop nation.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Love
  • Nation
  • Hip Hop

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • People
  • Important
  • Team

• The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • More

• We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Someone

• Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Play

• Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Hate

• Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.

  

  Imre Lakatos

• Six Sigma has forever changed GE. Everyone-from the Six Sigma zealots emerging from their Black Belt tours, to the engineers, the auditors, and the scientists, to the senior leadership that will take this Company into the new millennium-is a true believer in Six Sigma, the way this Company now works.

  

  Jack Welch
  • True
  • Black
  • Forever

• Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market;Knowledge needful for all, yet cannot be had for the asking.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • God
  • Knowledge

• I've never had the impertinence to be sorry for Helen Keller. I'd as soon be sorry for Niagara Falls. But now as I bring the story up to date, I'm shriveled with shame when I recall that at times in my life - my easy life - I've actually been sorry for myself. You too? We've got our nerve, haven't we?

  

  Alexander Woollcott
  • Life
  • Up
  • Sorry

• You come out at night;That's when the energy comes.And the dark side's light,And the vampires roam.You strut your rasta wearAnd your suicide poemAnd a cross from a faithThat died before Jesus came.You're building a mystery.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Night
  • Energy
  • Light

• Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Truth
  • Peace

• Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.

  

  Denise Fleming
  • Words
  • Action
  • Picture

• The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth
  • Justice

• The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

  

  John von Neumann
  • Work
  • Model

• At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.

  

  George Washington
  • Truth
  • Action
  • Distance