George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.George Bernard Shaw
Quotes to Explore
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It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Ἀψυχίᾳ γὰρ γλῶσσαν ἁρπάζει φόβος.
Aeschylus -
Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.
John Adams -
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter -
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.
Ray Charles -
I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.
Jerry Saltz -
I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.
Paul Thomas Anderson -
There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle.
Janet Mock -
My fashion resolution for 2015 is to continue to be inspired by all of the great designers of the past and present while keeping true to my style and myself.
Bella Hadid -
I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.
Dylan Moran
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Don't believe everything you think - or feel.
Anna Chancellor -
The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, 'The enemy's ships are more than ours,' replied, 'For how many then wilt thou reckon me?'
Plutarch -
I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.
Dwight L. Moody -
'Everybody rich and happy.' She smiled. 'Also complacent and rather stupid, you may have noticed.'
Joe Haldeman -
A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.
Kenneth Tynan -
When I wrote 'Savage Season,' it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote one, I never intended to write the next one.
Joe R. Lansdale
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My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.
Cheryl Strayed -
There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.
Martin Luther -
I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.
Upamanyu Chatterjee -
I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.
Arsene Wenger -
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
George Bernard Shaw