George Washington Quotes

So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.

George Washington

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• Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Painting
  • Drawing

• We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Night
  • Practice
  • Starts

• It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Child

• Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Things
  • Names
  • Essence

• To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Job
  • American
  • Age

• The Iraqis are committed to their rights as much as they are committed to the rights of others. Without peace they will be faced with many obstacles that would stop them from fulfilling their human role.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • Peace
  • Stop
  • Obstacles

• The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Bones
  • Spot
  • Tread

• Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Society
  • Fabric
  • Socially

• The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Awake
  • Common World
  • Private Worlds

• All is flux; nothing stays still.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Still
  • Flux

• Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab unity but in the way it captured the high ground of all politics: the language and fundamental categories it is conducted in.

  

  Kanan Makiya
  • Politics
  • Legacy
  • Phase

• People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Boxing
  • President Kennedy

• Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Lover
  • Promises

• " ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Family
  • Desire
  • Hypocrite

• The stage on which you perform in film and TV is much smaller. Moving your eyes across the frame is equivalent to crossing from stage right to stage left in a big Broadway house. Coming from a theatrical background and temperament, this is something I am still learning. However, I think ultimately your responsibilities to the character and the overall story are the same in both mediums, so my approach felt very similar.

  

  Bryce Pinkham
  • Film
  • Stage
  • TV

• Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Walks
  • Voyages
  • Piers

• Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • War
  • Death

• So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.

  

  George Washington
  • Mankind
  • Benevolence
  • Masonic