George Washington Quotes

We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.

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• Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Good
  • She
  • Sweet

• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Musicians

• I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

  

  Feist
  • Long
  • Year
  • Curious

• Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Night
  • Window
  • Early

• We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Money
  • Night
  • Lie

• Time was God's first creation.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Creation

• The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • You
  • Band

• We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Idea
  • Wind
  • My Own

• People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Appreciate
  • Follow

• 'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • People
  • Past
  • Myself

• Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Words

• Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Music
  • She
  • Kids

• Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Today
  • Wise

• The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Need
  • Will

• If you're able to pay your bills, you pay your bills. It's as simple as that.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Simple

• You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Hand
  • Baseball

• I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• Bergeron's epitaph for the planet, I remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the Grand Canyon for the flying-saucer people to find, was this:WE COULD HAVE SAVED ITBUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAPOnly he didn't say 'doggone.''

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • People
  • Remember
  • Wall

• We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • United