George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Peace

• Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Emotional
  • Body
  • Athlete

• It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Wish
  • Enough
  • Just

• Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Said
  • Loved
  • Clothing

• It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Intelligent

• I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Fighting
  • Artist
  • Sometimes

• Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Law
  • Eyes
  • Justice

• When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Growing

• The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she's warned me what to expect.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Help
  • Career
  • Expect

• A million years went by quick.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Years
  • Million
  • Quick

• Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • May
  • Power
  • Beliefs

• I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• 'Fiji can make a similar report on the US on all those issues. Our report would be far worse than the US state department's report on Fiji.' (2 March 2005, reacting to a US State Department report critical on the state of race relations in Fiji).

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • March

• Seriously!, this is a DVD! I need dinosaurs, thunder, race wars, something! Dammit, I gotta sell this motherfucker.... 36.63.

  

  Zach Galifianakis

• I like talking about sex. Especially when I'm horny, but even when I'm not.

  

  John Travolta
  • Sex
  • Talking
  • Horny

• There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall picture and the overall power is achieved in bringing all impoverished people together. The common denominator is pain, because we all suffer through the deaths of loved ones and eventually suffer death.

  

  David Banner
  • Death
  • Pain
  • Issues

• The Truth is the Truth.

  

  Max Weber
  • Truth

• Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Death
  • Imprisonment
  • Irrevocable