George Bernard Shaw Quotes
My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
Quotes to Explore
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.
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I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss.
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
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I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.
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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
