George Bernard Shaw Quotes

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

George Bernard Shaw

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• Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Dad
  • Always
  • Dance

• You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Family
  • You
  • Church

• There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Church

• The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Great
  • Church
  • Style

• This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Faith

• The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Day

• And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • God
  • Political

• Sunday, I go to church; I take the day off. I rest.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Day
  • Church
  • Rest

• You have to stay in shape for dance. I don't want to be too skinny, but I don't want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Want
  • You
  • Dance

• I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Dance

• The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • History
  • Church

• If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring within about 15 minutes. It doesn't work at home like it does in a nightclub. You've got no atmosphere.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Work
  • Home
  • Dance

• I wouldn't call myself a dancer. I would never even dance in a club - I can't move my feet! I'm terribly shy about moving. I feel comfortable in my body, but dancing is like learning another language.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • Learning
  • Moving
  • Dance

• My favorite scene that we shot in Season 1 of 'Kingdom' was the 'dance party' the boys and I had after we had gone thrift shopping, and then a lovely family dinner together.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Family
  • Together
  • Party

• The gym was my only refuge. I could put music on and dance around with my girlfriends and be silly.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Gym

• I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

  

  Gemma Chan
  • Up
  • Dance

• I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Music

• There's hardly a more effective way to solve the problems we face in our educational system than to reduce class size. A ratio of no more than 17 students per teacher ensures more 1-on-1 contact, better classroom discipline, you name it.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Teacher
  • Discipline

• Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Dust

• We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Church
  • Dance