George Bernard Shaw Quotes

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

George Bernard Shaw

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• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

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• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

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• There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!

  

  George C. Wolfe
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• We came up short on offense and that's on me.

  

  Joe Gibbs
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• Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

  

  Elia Kazan
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• I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
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• If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

  

  Jimmie Davis
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• Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is.

  

  George Foreman
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• Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
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• It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.

  

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• Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.

  

  Epictetus
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• Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Don’t blurt out your theme. Let it emerge from the story.

  

  Aaron Shepard
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• Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His divine perfection, our gratitude for all His mercies, our penitence for our sins, our hope in His forgiving love, our submission to His authority, our confidence in His care, our desires for His favour, and for the providential and spiritual blessings needed for ourselves and others.

  

  Charles Hodge
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• The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

  

  Epictetus
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• Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Relaxed
  • Abandoned
  • Effortless

• A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Desires
  • Revolutionist
  • Social order