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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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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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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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to
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When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.
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Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
