George Washington Quotes

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

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• The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Up
  • Think
  • Problem

• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Happy
  • Song
  • Know

• An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Reason
  • Cause
  • Justification

• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Book
  • Day
  • Grateful

• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • School
  • Home
  • Church

• When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Love
  • Guy
  • Man

• If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Want
  • Me
  • Chair

• There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Different
  • Want
  • Free

• Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Want
  • Know
  • Always

• One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Done

• The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Soul
  • Lost
  • Authenticity

• Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Creativity
  • Productivity

• Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • City

• I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Heart
  • End
  • New

• This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Good
  • Line
  • Cheesy

• People's connection to their clothes is very interesting. And rather than my own exposure, I would rather have the clothes be reachable and for people to be able to make those connections on their own.

  

  Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Connection

• I think psychologically Margaret Thatcher is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there with a woman who lived the unexamined life, and lived it deliberately, and who has contempt for history, even her own.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Reading
  • Study
  • Contempt

• Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Policy
  • Nobody
  • Presence

• If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.

  

  George Will
  • Today
  • Reading
  • Government

• I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

  

  George Washington
  • Honesty
  • Constitution
  • Policy