George Washington Quotes

I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.

George Washington

• Integrity
• Consciousness
• Judgment
• Comfort

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• I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • World
  • Lord
  • Hell

• You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • House
  • You
  • Leave

• I've always maintained that the problem in India is that we only give credit to big contributions.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Problem
  • Always
  • Credit

• I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Church
  • Christian

• Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Success
  • Internet
  • Nobody

• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • Nurse

• Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Nice

• I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

  

  Florence King
  • Home
  • Rather
  • My Own

• I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Years
  • Shy
  • Publicity

• It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Water
  • Red
  • Japanese

• At the end of day, what matters most to God, what moves His heart, isn't our fancy words and impressive possessions - it's the condition of our hearts.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Heart
  • Words

• I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because I actually believe in redistribution - at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody's got a shot.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Pool

• Militat omnis amans

  

  Ovid

• If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Why
  • Hurt

• Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Science

• I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up

• Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

  

  Jeaniene Frost
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Question

• I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

  

  Jana Kramer

• I drive a Nissan Versa and would never spend real money on a car because I destroy things.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Real
  • Money
  • Car

• New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It`s like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• IQ is thought to be a measure which expresses the relative brightness or intelligence of any given individual.

  

  Catharine Cox Miles
  • Individual
  • Intelligence
  • Measure

• No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Value
  • Integrity

• I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.

  

  Rebecca Eaton
  • Judgment
  • Depends

• I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.

  

  George Washington
  • Integrity
  • Consciousness
  • Judgment