George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.George Bernard Shaw
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Oscar Wilde -
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
Wendy Craig -
I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
Kate Christensen -
The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine -
I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.
Sam Heughan
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Doing 'Magnificent Seven' was a no-brainer.
Haley Bennett -
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Mark Twain -
Belts distract the eye from a bloated tummy, a heavy-set upper body and all manner of sins. They can be a superb way to update your wardrobe without breaking the bank, and there's no reason to stop wearing them, ever!
Lesley Lawson -
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
Lewis H. Lapham -
I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.
Louis Sachar -
If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
Anita Loos
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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
Oscar Wilde -
In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.
Anthony Daniels -
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
Oscar Wilde -
There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
Oscar Wilde -
I've had something like seven films at Sundance, one of which won the Grand Jury Prize.
Rachel Morrison -
The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.
James Cook
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The illegal brokering of arms and weapons to our enemies is a serious and deadly business.
Christopher Wray -
I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it.
Henry Paulson -
People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
Adrien Brody -
Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.
Ezra Taft Benson -
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
George Bernard Shaw