George Washington Quotes
By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different light; but the designs and actions of Washington centred in nobler objects, the freedom, tranquillity, and happiness of his country, in which he was to participate equally with every other citizen, neither seeking nor expecting any other preeminence than that of having been an instrument in the hand of Providence.
George Washington
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If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
Zadie Smith
But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
Abu Bakar Bashir
Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
Tammy Faye Bakker
I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.
Zoe Saldana
I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
Hannah Marks
I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
Radha Mitchell
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
Gabriela Mistral
I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.
Isabel Sanford
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
Ezra Pound
Imagine you're drowning, and someone hands you a baby.
Jim Gaffigan
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
George Washington
By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different light; but the designs and actions of Washington centred in nobler objects, the freedom, tranquillity, and happiness of his country, in which he was to participate equally with every other citizen, neither seeking nor expecting any other preeminence than that of having been an instrument in the hand of Providence.
George Washington
