George Washington Quotes
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Quotes to Explore
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.
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Islam and democracy can function together.
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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There have been some brilliant and very successful standalone books that work in themselves and also seem to refresh a series. Anyone who writes a series lives in fear of it becoming stale, so you do whatever you can to keep it fresh - although it does feel a bit nerve-racking to write outside of your comfort zone.
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I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically.
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You have to accept people for who they are. You can guide. You can give people chances. But you cannot hold on to people in fear that you are bad because you can't keep everyone you've hired.
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The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
