George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.
Quotes to Explore
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
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Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'
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Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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If there's one thing any mom should have for fall, it's a peplum top.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.
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It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.
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It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves.
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The big mistake people make is eating their grilled beef hot. I prefer room temperature or cool. When the meat rests and starts to get cool, all of that fat goes back into the muscles and becomes much more tender.
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Life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream.
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Believe me, I love a good chocolate chip ice cream. I'm not going to go for some lousy version of it. If I'm going to have it, I'm going to have a really good one. I believe in treating yourself occasionally to something.
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More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.
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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.
