George Washington Quotes

Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

George Washington

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• Calm
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• Settling

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• I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • Game
  • Offer

• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing

• You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Hope
  • Always

• Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • History
  • Humanity
  • Language

• The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Peace
  • Struggle
  • Israel

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Attention
  • Band
  • Enough

• In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I just don't think men fancy me.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Men
  • Think
  • Me

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • New
  • Involved

• There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Good
  • Political

• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Name

• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Life
  • Man
  • Gardening

• Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • Power
  • Often

• With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

  

  Matt Groening

• My art has no object, no image, no point of focus.

  

  James Turrell
  • Art
  • Focus

• Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Time

• Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Men
  • Character
  • Boy

• My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me... I don't fight the universe.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Fighting

• Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

  

  George Washington
  • Life
  • Men
  • Mind