George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.
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I just want to be rich and famous.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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There's not too many rich black people in this world.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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Rich people march on Washington every day.
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The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
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Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind. Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that--don't be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain. Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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Morals are a luxury of the rich.
