George Washington Quotes

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

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• I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Happy
  • Proud

• I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Trying
  • Value
  • Moon

• As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Law
  • Government
  • Decision

• Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Important
  • Live

• I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

  

  Idi Amin
  • World
  • Myself
  • Powerful

• People used to think of me as a comedy actor.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Time
  • Me
  • Experiences

• It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Government
  • Struggle
  • Nickel

• My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Want
  • Boxing

• I do loads of squats with weights. It's great for your bum and legs.

  

  Fleur East
  • Great
  • Legs
  • Weights

• I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Thought
  • Sweet

• I want to be treated like a musician.

  

  Halsey
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musician

• One way to quantify the immigrant contribution to the overall economy is to measure their share of the U.S. economic output. One such examination for the years 2009-2011 found that immigrants contributed 14.7 percent of the total economic output.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Immigrants
  • Immigrant

• If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

  

  Karl Rove
  • American
  • Want
  • Politics

• Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Words
  • Boat

• That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Beginning

• Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Words

• When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Life
  • Death

• As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

  

  Marvin Hamlisch
  • People
  • Work
  • High

• I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Serious
  • Realizing
  • Journalism

• Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

  

  George Washington
  • Serious
  • Manners
  • Graves