George Washington Quotes

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

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• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  

  Edmund White
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Man

• I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Time
  • Power
  • Technology

• Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Man

• Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
  • Party

• There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Way
  • Football
  • Concerns

• I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Work
  • Day
  • Teacher

• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Sky

• I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Think

• Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Me
  • Test
  • Told

• The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Book
  • Holy

• I've never played a character that would sing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Character
  • Never
  • Sing

• Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Today
  • Global

• You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • You
  • Always
  • Without

• As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Great
  • Business
  • Change

• I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Never
  • Dresses
  • Worn

• The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Responsibility
  • Opinion

• How long will we keep making films where hero-heroine is dancing around trees?

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Long
  • Hero
  • Dancing

• If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

  

  Chuck Daly
  • Work

• Obviously ,you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it's on your stick.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Want
  • Good Things

• There is a difference between treating yourself, and doing it because you think everyone is going to approve of you looking like that. When I step into a room, I want people to know that I am who I am. I definitely want to stay humble.

  

  The Kid LAROI
  • Humble
  • Stay
  • Who I Am

• The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

  

  E. B. White
  • Style
  • Simplicity
  • Beginners

• Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

  

  George Washington
  • Style
  • Conviction
  • Disgusting