George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Man
  • Way
  • Standards

• If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Way
  • Friend
  • Like

• There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Acting

• In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Way
  • Stupidity

• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Family
  • Way
  • Existence

• In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Way
  • Become
  • Reputation

• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Way
  • Advice
  • Shopping

• Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Way
  • Humor
  • Incredible

• Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Way
  • Spiritual
  • Intuition

• I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Month

• Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Way
  • Politics
  • Television

• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Way
  • Style
  • Individual

• All labels are offensive in some way.

  

  J Mascis
  • Way
  • Labels
  • Offensive

• I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.

  

  Imelda May
  • Way
  • Young
  • Started

• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Happy
  • Culture
  • Way

• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Time
  • Power
  • Existence

• I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Home
  • Way
  • Mom

• I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

  

  Man Ray
  • Wish
  • Existence
  • Paint

• There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Labor

• I like the shaman very much, the way he was crying.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Way
  • Cry

• A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Way
  • Listener
  • Display

• I think I feel my best - I really feel the fountain of youth is inside, not out - when I'm just surrounded with love, when I'm with my family and we're all having a wonderful time together. There's nothing greater than your family surrounding you.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Family
  • Love

• I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Way
  • Existence
  • Clearing