George Washington Quotes
I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another.
Quotes to Explore
-
I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
-
I think of OkCupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic relationship.
-
I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
-
To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
-
I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
-
I'm such a perfectionist.
-
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
-
Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
-
There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
-
I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
-
I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
-
Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
-
Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.
-
It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
-
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
-
From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
-
I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
-
It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.... I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah... Faith is best expressed in story.
-
If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
-
I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
-
To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
-
The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.
-
I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another.
