George Washington Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
-
Reverence is fatal to literature.
-
You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
-
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
-
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
-
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
-
But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
-
I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
-
You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
-
I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
-
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom - he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
-
It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.
-
'But girls often marry when they are too young,' exclaimed Mary-Marie quickly; 'so, if you don't object to my age - '
-
Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.
-
Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.
-
Παῖδες γὰρ ἀνδρὶ κληδόνες σωτήριοιθανόντι.
-
What happened to Riggs?
-
When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come from a horror movie. So many people talk about seeing their families get murdered before their eyes. Then I go to Central Park, and people are talking about their third divorce and paying tuition.
-
I'm so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes.
-
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
-
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.
-
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
-
You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.
-
Death...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
