George Bernard Shaw Quotes

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

George Bernard Shaw

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• If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Stop
  • Athlete
  • Gym

• In such a globalised world society there would be no place for war, for hegemonistic controls or cut-throat competition. India, is a country that has wrested its independence from one of the mightiest empires on earth by the method of non-violence. It is not the desire of this nation to solve such problems as we have with our neighbours by the use of force. With Pakistan, which was carved out of our body-politic, it was our desire to have friendly co-operation in a hundred ways after partition. But if India`s integrity and independence is threatened, it becomes the duty of the Indian State, -- its duty to the one-billion people who inhabit our vast land -- to defend them with all the resources and strength at its disposal...

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • World
  • Society
  • Controls

• Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Knowledge
  • Sources

• The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Cat
  • Doe
  • Pet

• A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Read
  • Poet
  • Public Figure

• I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • America
  • History
  • Future

• My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.

  

  Antoniette Costa
  • Want
  • Write
  • Performing

• Never insult someone's OTP, if they kill you, it's your fault.

  

  Dan Howell
  • Never
  • Fault
  • Insult

• I'd like to professionally... continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. I think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else. I don't think it should ever happen to anyone ever again - not one person.

  

  George Zimmerman
  • Justice
  • Happening
  • Miscarriage

• People in Toronto love to watch fights.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Watch
  • Fights

• I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Helping
  • Fights
  • Publicity

• The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Country
  • Hero
  • Fights

• All I have to say is that I want more fights and if I get more fights then I can do better.

  

  Nicholas Walters
  • Want
  • More
  • Fights

• I think 'retirement' goes hand in hand with people who make a living by having a 'job.' I don't think we-the .00001 percent of the population who are so fortunate to love passionately what we do-consider it a 'job.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • People
  • Job
  • Retirement

• The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Love
  • Friendship

• There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Fights
  • Patriotic principles
  • Business principles