George Washington Quotes

I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.

George Washington

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• Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Saying

• The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Courage
  • Path
  • Cancer

• The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Found
  • Early
  • Communist

• On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Women
  • America
  • Party

• Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Never

• No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Govern

• You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Luxury
  • Fragrance

• Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • People
  • Privacy
  • Behind

• When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Never
  • Down
  • Charity

• I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Want
  • Man
  • Tyrant

• Without literature my life would be miserable.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Life
  • Literature
  • My Life

• When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • School
  • Family
  • Man

• There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Woman
  • Enjoy

• You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Time
  • Growing
  • Practice

• The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Different
  • Story
  • Opera

• When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Always
  • Old
  • Everyone

• I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Everything
  • Letters
  • Ever

• It's our duty as leaders in Washington to keep the government running.

  

  Austin Scott
  • Running

• As for 'cultural genocide', if there's any going on these days, it's the genocide of the Britannic inheritance - in North America, in the Antipodes, in Blair's Britain.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • America

• If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Man
  • Loves

• You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.

  

  Allan Carr
  • Up
  • Home

• One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Human
  • Existence
  • Laws

• I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.

  

  George Washington
  • America
  • Hours
  • Causes