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

• Passion
• Lust
• Pity
• Cruelty
• Infects

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• Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!

  

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• I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.

  

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• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
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• When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
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• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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• Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

  

  Gary Wolf
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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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• It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.

  

  T. D. Jakes
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• Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
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• Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
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• Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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• I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution.

  

  James D. Watson
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• I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart.

  

  S.C. Stephens
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• Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

  

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• Because change is never easy, and is resisted, it is your job as storyteller to apply as much pressure on your characters as possible. You must back them into a corner and force them to change. Make it as painful as you can. Bring them to the brink of physical or emotional death if you possibly can. Your protagonists will be measured by the size of their struggle, so don't pull any punches.

  

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• The most woeful ingredients of the Spanish civil war were its selfish motives, the hidden ambitions it served, the emphasis on hollow words used by both sides; it seemed to be a comedy - terribly bloody - but a comedy all the same.

  

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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
  • Passion
  • Lust
  • Pity