George Bernard Shaw Quotes

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Father
  • Success
  • Best

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Just
  • Enlightenment

• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Funny

• I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Doing
  • Will
  • Shall

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Good
  • Like
  • Stage

• Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Solution

• But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Friends

• It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Asking

• 'In innocence there is no strength against evil,' said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. 'But there is strength in it for good.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Evil

• Reaching the summit of a mountain gives great satisfaction, but nothing for me has been more rewarding in life than the result of our climb on Everest, when we have devoted ourselves to the welfare of our Sherpa friends.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • World
  • Wish
  • Victory

• Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate:And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Hate
  • Smile

• Our ills are worse than at their easeThese blameless happy souls suspect,They only study the disease,Alas, who live not to detect.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Live
  • Happy
  • Study

• To you, is it movement, or is it action?Is it contact or just reaction?And you, revolution, just resistance?Is it living, or just existence? - The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Enemy

• A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Simplicity
  • Theory
  • Area

• Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

  

  Isaac Mayer Wise
  • Genius
  • Intention
  • Inconsiderate

• 'The Goddesses'? I don't believe the term is good enough, but when you're bound by these terrestrial descriptions, you must use the best choice available.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Good
  • Believe

• I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

  

  Lisa Cholodenko
  • Women

• There are two names that jump right out to me they are Mariska Hargitay and Katie Holmes. Both of these women are incredibly talented, and also wonderful moms, they would be down on their knees right after a take to play with their kids. They’re beautiful women inside and out, and that’s what inspires me!

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Beautiful

• We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Universe
  • Purpose
  • Intention