George Bernard Shaw Quotes
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
George Bernard Shaw
Quotes to Explore
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
Malcolm Arnold
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I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
Jack Nicklaus
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Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
C. S. Lewis
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Nadia Boulanger
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm.' I loved it and I've had such a passion for TV and films. I can't do anything else.
Alexandra Roach
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It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilisation, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.
Charles Darwin
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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.
Eric Holder
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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
George Bernard Shaw
