George Bernard Shaw Quotes

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

George Bernard Shaw

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• A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • American
  • Stand

• I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • American
  • Law

• Export anything to a friendly country except American management.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Country
  • American
  • Management

• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • American
  • Win
  • Gold

• I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • World
  • American
  • First

• I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • American
  • Myself

• When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • American
  • America

• Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • May
  • American

• If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Men
  • American
  • Death

• So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • American
  • Relationship
  • Government

• What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • American
  • Dream

• I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Great
  • American
  • Think

• When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.

  

  Jack Herer
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • Work
  • American
  • History

• I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Good
  • American
  • Think

• Only after Southwest Airlines became the most profitable airline in America did United and American challenge their long-held assumptions about how to compete. At worst, laggards follow the path of greatest familiarity. Challengers, on the other hand, follow the path of greatest opportunity, wherever it leads.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • American
  • America

• 'Westworld' is going to be incredible, and the production line is amazing. That was really nice because Lisa Nolan, who is in charge there, is fabulous and is a great example of a woman doing that role. So that was great, and she's amazing - an incredible writer and fantastic to work with.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Work
  • Great
  • She

• I wear my prosthetics legs every day, and when I train in the gym, I call them my Lamborghini, because both legs and sockets, which extend up to my hips to keep the legs on via a suction seal, cost about $305,815.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Up
  • Gym

• In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

  

  Emile Hirsch
  • Chinese

• Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Long
  • Wall
  • Tiger

• Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • American
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  • Struggles