George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

George Bernard Shaw

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• The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

  

  Barry White
  • Truth
  • Thought
  • Innocent

• I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Character
  • Think

• If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Business
  • Career
  • Strong

• I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Life
  • Money
  • Alone

• Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Life
  • Age
  • Father

• You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • God
  • My Life

• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Poverty

• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Perfection

• I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Life
  • Never
  • Personal

• Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Alone

• The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • American
  • Proud

• By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. And, did we even see this, how can we make the difference? How obtain the interest which society declares she does not want, and we cannot want?

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Mugger: Look bud. I said, your money or your life.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Life
  • Money

• You blessed my life!Never on me had rested woman's love.My mother even could not find me fair:I had no sister; and, when grown a man,I feared the mistress who would mock at me.But I have had your friendship - grace to youA woman's charm has passed across my path.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Path

• As I get older, I have a different look on life. I just try to be a little more tolerant and a little bit more centered about what's going on around me and not so emotional.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Life
  • Different
  • Emotional

• I was the core of the universe, as we always are to ourselves.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Universe

• In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don't realize what I'm doing. I'll snap back to reality and I realize, 'Hey, I just ripped that boy's helmet off,' or, 'I'm over here twisting this guy's knee.

  

  The Boz
  • Guy
  • Reality
  • Crazy

• All Heaven is within thee, Man, And all of Hell within thy heart: What thou dost choose and will to have, That hast thou wheresoe'er thou art.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Heaven

• Linear relationships can be captured with a straight line on a graph. Linear relationships are easy to think about....Linear equations are solvable... Linear systems have an important modular virtue: you can take them apart, and put them together again - the pieces add up.

  

  James Gleick
  • Up
  • Important
  • Together

• The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Hand