George Washington Quotes

Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for your self or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, never communicate, as from yourself, or anyone else, a sentiment of the like nature.

George Washington

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• A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Movement
  • Sides
  • Masses

• A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Japanese

• I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Position
  • Roles
  • Queen

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Goals

• As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Venus favors the bold.

  

  Ovid
  • Bold
  • Favors
  • Venus

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Way
  • Swing
  • Bat

• We've always believed in our music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Our

• What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Peace
  • Sea
  • River

• I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Remember
  • Look
  • Act

• Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Business
  • Together
  • Creative

• People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Marriage

• I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Best
  • Better

• Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Thing
  • Vanity

• I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Change
  • Desire
  • Better

• Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • American
  • Age

• Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Country
  • Where
  • Taxation

• Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Country
  • Change
  • Stop

• Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.

  

  Lee De Forest
  • Kitchen
  • Waves

• Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for your self or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, never communicate, as from yourself, or anyone else, a sentiment of the like nature.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Communicate