George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • History
  • Progress

• I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Sex

• You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Practice
  • Sex
  • Safe

• There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up
  • Power
  • Age

• I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Girl
  • Sex
  • Door

• I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Always

• Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Sex

• I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Difficult
  • Most

• They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Sex

• You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • You
  • Sex
  • Accept

• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Connect

• By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Done
  • Winning

• Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • School
  • Age
  • Education

• 'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Brother
  • Sex
  • Season

• That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Age
  • Political
  • Religion

• Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Love
  • Sex
  • For Her

• I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Value
  • Confidence
  • Sex

• There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Women
  • May
  • Power

• Awards are not as important to me as when I meet a 10-year-old kid who says, 'I love Captain Jack Sparrow.'

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Important

• The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Woman
  • Mirror
  • Reputation

• Of course, you see your body changing as you age, but it's more important to live than be too preoccupied with that sort of thing. I think ultimately what people care about in other people is the energy, the spirit.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Important
  • Live

• I think everybody wants GST.

  

  Chanda Kochhar

• The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Sex