George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

George Bernard Shaw

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• For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Sea

• Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Good
  • Book
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• I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • School
  • History
  • Today

• Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • People
  • Technology
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• It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Achieve

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
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• I've always been interested in making movies.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Interested

• What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • War
  • Technology

• Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Thinking
  • Game
  • You

• With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Different
  • Man
  • Best

• There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Wish
  • Now
  • I Wish

• My supporters are people who believe in being fiscally responsible and socially accepting. I think most people are in that category. Speaking with a broad brushstroke, those are my supporters.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Think

• Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • New
  • Going
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• The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Thought
  • Emotional

• Under the rubric of conservatism, the Republican party of Bush I and II has been reinventing itself into what conservatives would have once recognized as a Rockefeller party reciting Reaganite rhetoric.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Party

• Despair exists only when there is hope.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Hope

• I love the things that you've given meI cherish you my dear countryBut sometimes I don't understand the way we play

  

  Norah Jones

• So who or what is to blame for baseball games that go on forever? Two oft-cited culprits are constant replay calls and batters who leave the box in between every pitch to adjust their gloves and helmet and shin guards and elbow pads and then knock the dirt off their cleats before working up their stride for the next at-bat.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Up
  • Forever
  • Baseball

• Even into the 20th century, women were still struggling in the Western world for rights that Islam had granted women in the 7th century: equal rights to education; the right to own and inherit property; to have a voice in the decisions affecting their lives; to be active, engaged, and valued members of society at all levels.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • World
  • Women
  • Society

• Women treat us men like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Humanity

• I do shows, stage shows all the time, and I'm so afraid that people are going to recognize themselves, and they never do. They never do. They're always like, 'Oh, that woman was ridiculous,' and yeah, they're talking about themselves.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • People
  • Time

• His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

  

  Mae West
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Him

• The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Women
  • Secret
  • Rebellion