George Bernard Shaw Quotes

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

• Happiness
• Right
• Wealth
• Producing
• Consume

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hate

• I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Remember
  • Cats
  • Philadelphia

• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Dark

• In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Day

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • World
  • Work
  • Peace

• I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Best
  • Artist
  • End

• Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Women
  • Courage
  • End

• Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Like
  • Gone
  • Favor

• Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Great
  • Bad
  • History

• When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Good
  • Party
  • Leadership

• I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
  • High
  • College

• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Energy
  • Me
  • Movies

• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Light
  • End
  • Train

• I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Life
  • Rest
  • My Life

• The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infinity, and from among its splendors, this earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

  

  William Mountford
  • Home
  • Remembered
  • Infinity

• I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Romantic
  • Really
  • Fact

• Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.

  

  William of Occam
  • Equal
  • Explanation
  • Complexes

• My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Father
  • Movies
  • Young Age

• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Happiness
  • Right
  • Wealth