George Washington Quotes
There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
Quotes to Explore
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
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Apparently she's the only one who is happy with this bill.
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Theres nothing more fierce than the female, like the momma lion. Believe me, my wife is a good example.
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There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
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Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.
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Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.
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It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue.
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There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
