George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Ovid -
I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
Ian Watson -
I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
Ted Nugent -
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis -
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Maimonides
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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Washington Irving -
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde -
A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.
Adam Green -
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
Carlo Goldoni -
Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
Jack Wild
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.
Zhang Zhidong -
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln -
Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.
Cory Doctorow -
In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Lily Tomlin
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I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.
Flannery O'Connor -
We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.
Ahmed Yassin -
Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.
Nate Silver -
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
J. B. Priestley -
[ The aim to be big] is not a joke about my size. It's just that I'm a dreamer, but I'm following through with it. I believe anyone can do it as long as they focus and have a game plan.
Gabriel Iglesias -
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
George Bernard Shaw