George Washington Quotes
Let me live according to those holy rules which Thou hast this day prescribed in Thy Holy Word...direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life. Bless, O Lord, all the people of this land.George Washington
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
Feist -
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
A. R. Ammons -
Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
Laura Moser -
Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
Sam Shepard -
I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
Mamie Gummer -
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Beatrice Wood
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison -
Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
Mahershala Ali -
Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
Jack Nicholson -
My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
Rafael Nadal -
I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
Patrick deWitt -
Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
Victor Ponta
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Edna Ferber -
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
D. H. Lawrence -
Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole.
Edgar Degas -
The distinction between the world of commerce and that of 'culture' quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.
Allan Bloom -
After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.
Maureen Forrester
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Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
Nelson Mandela -
I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
Vidal Sassoon -
I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.
Ed Harris -
I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
Natasha Trethewey -
For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.
David Zindell -
Let me live according to those holy rules which Thou hast this day prescribed in Thy Holy Word...direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life. Bless, O Lord, all the people of this land.
George Washington