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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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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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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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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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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My best friend is my husband.
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a normal life.
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People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.
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He who owns a veteran bur oak owns more than a tree. He owns a historical library, and a reserved seat in the theater of evolution. To the discerning eye, his farm is labeled with the badge and symbol of the prairie war.
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My fans and followers are so amazing.
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I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.
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We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry about polar bears disappearing or whatever, it's like, 'Well that's life, things will come and go, we'll find new species.'
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
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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.
