George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

George Bernard Shaw

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• General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Military
  • Place
  • Impossible

• The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Blood
  • Suicide
  • Revenge

• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Education
  • Best

• I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Wedding

• The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Faith
  • Like
  • Weapons

• Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Sometimes
  • Cold
  • Skin

• You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Live
  • Know
  • Afraid

• In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • World
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

• I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Difficult
  • Horror
  • Terrified

• I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • Community
  • Gay

• I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Work
  • Game
  • Practice

• Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • High
  • Pretty

• My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Positive
  • Conversation

• What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Poor
  • Take

• When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • End
  • Look

• There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Opportunity
  • Service
  • Acting

• There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Evil
  • Religion

• I've always wanted to be a singer.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Singer

• Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Ideas

• With His love, you can wake up every day with an attitude of faith and expectancy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Faith

• I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Scared

• I got so strong I felt like a giant.....When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating.

  

  Gary Player
  • Mind
  • Fascinating

• "I think to be a true minimalist you should almost nearly be invisible yourself."

  

  Walter De Maria
  • Yourself
  • Invisible
  • Minimalist

• Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Love
  • Moment
  • Appetite