George Washington Quotes

It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.

George Washington

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• It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • You
  • Monster
  • Buildings

• I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Land
  • Issue
  • Which

• I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Never
  • Role

• Equality for women is progress for all.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Progress
  • Equality

• I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Up
  • Like
  • Technique

• I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • World
  • War
  • History

• My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Marriage

• Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • God
  • Important
  • Family

• After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Something
  • News
  • Liar

• Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Mind
  • Girls
  • Straightforward

• I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Think
  • Wall

• There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Joy
  • Performance

• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Feel

• But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• For commercial customers, we have invested in specialist mobile-first sales capabilities, and we are building out our device-selling channel.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Building
  • Sales
  • Customers

• Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Done
  • Evil
  • Decision

• The kind of plan that Donald has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again. In fact, it would be the most extreme version, the biggest tax cuts for the top percent of the people in this country than we've ever had. I call it trumped-up trickle-down, because that's exactly what it would be. That is not how we grow the economy.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

  

  Amy Waldman
  • People
  • History

• Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.

  

  Daniel Greenberg
  • People
  • Children
  • Happy

• It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Real
  • Opinion