George Bernard Shaw Quotes

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Inspiration
  • Summon

• Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Country
  • Olympics

• In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

  

  Iain Banks
  • You
  • Politics
  • Disagree

• Life is a school of probability.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • School
  • Life Is A

• Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • True
  • Game
  • Winning

• I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Down
  • Phone
  • Mechanic

• Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Always
  • Genius
  • Clouds

• Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • World
  • Good
  • Day

• While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Up
  • Person
  • Too Much

• In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • You
  • Same
  • Looking

• It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Faith
  • Vision
  • Courage

• A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Energy

• I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Happy

• I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Working

• You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Kind
  • Friend
  • Forget

• I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • World
  • Stupid
  • Research

• With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.

  

  Irving Harper
  • World
  • Choices
  • Limits

• Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • More
  • Paganism
  • Infectious

• How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Painful
  • Less
  • Plainer

• I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years.

  

  Neil Oliver
  • Years
  • More
  • Phone

• Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Happiness
  • Memories

• It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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  • Less
  • Bargain