George Washington Quotes
My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
George Washington
Quotes to Explore
-
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
Walter Lippmann
-
If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
Larry Wall
-
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
Ayn Rand
-
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse
Anzia Yezierska
-
But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you … more proud...
Anna Akhmatova
-
Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.
Charles Dickens
-
There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.
Anne M. Mulcahy
-
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.
Karl Lagerfeld
-
As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.
Dan Colen
-
When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.
Drew Barrymore
-
Nothing compares to being in a room full of politicians screaming abuse at each other all night. It's hilarious but also a bit terrifying.
Peter Capaldi
-
My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
George Washington