George Washington Quotes

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

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• Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Insurance
  • Been
  • Medical

• If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Want
  • Vote

• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vote

• My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Family
  • City
  • Chicago

• When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Back
  • Hit
  • Attacked

• People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Death
  • Fear

• Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

  

  Vin Scully
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Work
  • Political
  • Human

• The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • True
  • Always
  • Facts

• There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Money
  • Class
  • Far

• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Tears
  • Faces

• My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • Church
  • Spiritual

• In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• When I think of something that really is me, that I'm proud of, is honestly, I would have to say, I've never sold my soul along the way... All those things, you're selling your soul, and I don't think I have.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Soul
  • Proud

• Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Anxiety

• 'Oh indeed!' exclaimed the King. Then he turned to his servants and said: 'Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly slice him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed him to the seven-headed dogs.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • May
  • King

• 'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line

  

  Anne Rice
  • Vampire

• So what does it matter where it was when it was hit? We could have sunk it if it'd been tied up on the quayside in a neutral port and everyone would still have been delighted.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits
  • Up

• The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • World
  • Good

• America interests me above all because it is so filled with contradictions, interesting contradictions, which change constantly. Even if you've decided that you don't want to deal with that subject again, before you know it, the desire comes back to do it yet again.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Desire

• That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

  

  George Stigler
  • Interest
  • Subject
  • Abstract

• In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them personally in what we have to say.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Interest
  • Failing
  • Complaining

• The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Work
  • God

• Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

  

  George Washington
  • Humanity
  • Interest
  • Harmony