George Washington Quotes

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

George Washington

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• Peace
• Desire
• Wish
• Policy
• Sincere

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• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Good
  • Game
  • Change

• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Winning
  • Moment
  • Luck

• What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talent

• I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Think

• I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Now
  • Inspire

• I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Bike
  • Riding

• I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Art
  • Dog
  • Rain

• The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Morning

• Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Books

• There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • War
  • Colleagues

• 'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Women
  • Childhood
  • Wishes

• I am at one of the best clubs in the world and in the best league. And in my private life, everything is also going very well. At 25, I feel in the right place.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Life
  • World
  • Best

• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Mind
  • Acting
  • Creative

• There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Women
  • Live
  • Way

• I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Life
  • Help
  • Alone

• We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Never
  • Left
  • Until

• What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Life

• Would you like the oldest, most historically significant athletic competition the world has ever known, attracting athletes from every known nation on the face of the planet to come here and perform at the peak of their abilities, in the very city where you live? Most British people go, 'Where will we park?!'

  

  Marcus Brigstocke
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

  

  George Washington
  • World
  • Peace
  • Desire