George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness...

George Bernard Shaw

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• We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • American
  • History
  • Black

• Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

  

  Lactantius
  • Men
  • Father
  • Beginning

• I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• I always knew I was destined for greatness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Always
  • Greatness
  • Destined

• Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Greatness
  • Drinking
  • Vices

• Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Politics
  • Greatness
  • Needed

• Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Country
  • American
  • America

• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Greatness
  • Animals

• Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Today
  • Everyday
  • Greatness

• Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Greatness
  • Run
  • Follow

• The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Business
  • American
  • America

• Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Made
  • Greatness
  • Had

• Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Greatness

• Do not the brave know The greatness of their progeny? A country present will meet thee, And while it may possibly be yours, Three hundred thousand years save one, A short hour of the day of everlasting life.

  

  Taliesin
  • Life
  • Country
  • May

• Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • World
  • Great
  • American

• Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism - a much darker view, I think, of the world.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • World
  • Different
  • American

• From leading the world into the age of democracy to spearheading the technological revolution, America has always been at the forefront of greatness.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • World
  • America
  • Age

• The idea that you have to pursue greatness... it's up to you; it's your life.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Greatness

• The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Planning
  • Blame
  • Consequence

• I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Society
  • Names
  • German

• The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Fathers
  • Longer

• To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • College

• Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume and carry out public responsibilities, less accountable institutions such as the corporation will do the job in their own self-interest.

  

  Charles Derber
  • Responsibility
  • Values
  • Belief

• Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Greatness
  • Sensations
  • Littleness