George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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I love running and I will always run.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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I feel like you can share as many jokes as you want to because no joke you do on Twitter is ever gonna be so big on Twitter, for the most part, that you can't say it on stage that same night.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home.
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Beauty is not pretty.
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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.