George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Way
  • Me

• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.

• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
  • Life Goes On

• 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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • You
  • Summer

• There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Justice
  • Broken
  • Laws

• 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.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Political
  • Me

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• 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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• 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.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • War
  • China

• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  

  Florence King
  • Moral
  • Snake
  • Bee

• In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Politics
  • Stupidity

• Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Live
  • Die
  • Single

• I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Weird
  • Strange
  • Really

• If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

  

  Dane Cook
  • You
  • Funny
  • Say

• Good men must not obey the laws too well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Good Men

• I love running and I will always run.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Running
  • Always
  • Will

• We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Live
  • Society
  • Picture

• Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

  

  Leslie Easterbrook
  • Life
  • She
  • Character

• Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
  • Work
  • Learning

• We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Life
  • Childhood
  • Personalities

• About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

  

  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Age

• The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • People
  • Society

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • Control