George Washington Quotes
Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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People used to think of me as a comedy actor.
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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.
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It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
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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.
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There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both.
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I do loads of squats with weights. It's great for your bum and legs.
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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.
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I want to be treated like a musician.
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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.
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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.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.
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That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.
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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.
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Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.
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Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
