George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

George Bernard Shaw

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• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

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• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  

  Manuel Puig
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  • Think
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• In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned natives, come convincingly to life.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• I love clothes! I'll wear anything from Urban Outfitters or American Apparel.

  

  J. R. Celski
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  • Urban
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• A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

  

  Samuel Butler
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  • Gold
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• I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Music
  • Country
  • Away

• The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Nice

• Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Virtue

• I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Public
  • Vice
  • Amusements

• We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Always
  • Songs
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• Nobody had made this wilderness, and there was no evil in it and no good; it simply was.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
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• America is the biggest gang in the world.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • World
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• Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

  

  Anais Nin

• I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.

  

  Billy Childish
  • People
  • Home
  • Feeling

• I feel like there's something interesting to learn from anyone's story, no matter their place in society. I think we've gotten really far away from that - we're in such a celebrity-obsessed culture.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Interesting

• I want to be known as a guy who, regardless of circumstance, always gave 100 percent, always went the hardest and the smartest. Pray up, inspiration to God, put in what I get out.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Up
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• I hate those unrealistic goals that people place on women. It's just not right. It took us nine months to have our babies and put on this weight. I gained 55 pounds with my daughter, so I get it. It's tough. But you can't just pop out a baby and expect to be the size you were before. It just doesn't work like that.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

  

  Eugene Sue
  • Poverty
  • Virtue
  • Trips

• I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I’ve written it or I haven’t, I’m very comfortable with both.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Up
  • Song

• I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Character
  • Silly
  • Birth

• ...God notices the most trivial act, accepts the poorest, most threadbare little service, listens to the coldest, feeblest petition, and gathers up with parental fondness all our fragmentary desires and attempts at good works. Oh, if we could only begin to conceive how He loves us, what different creatures we should be!

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • God
  • Service
  • Creatures

• One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

  

  William Hull
  • Problem
  • Ideas
  • Active

• Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Virtue
  • Vice
  • Desiring