George Bernard Shaw Quotes

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

George Bernard Shaw

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• The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Christian

• I really don't know life without wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Know
  • Wrestling

• Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Walk

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • Students

• One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Courage
  • Pessimism

• I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Hope
  • Relationship
  • Our

• People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Believe
  • Politics

• There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Diversity
  • Rights

• I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Family
  • Bad

• I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Relationship

• I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Age
  • Feel

• The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, 'When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?' The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, 'Yes!'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Reality
  • Eyes

• Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

  

  Frederick Soddy
  • Real
  • Past
  • Legend

• I'm not looking for 'outer esteem' anymore, what they call 'other esteem.' I'm looking for self-esteem. And people think that self-esteem is built with accomplishments. And, 'Hey, look what I did in my life.'

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • People
  • Life

• We don't get the Tony gift basket anymore. You used to get incredible swag - there was like $5,000 worth of stuff. I remember getting an MP3 player, gift certificates to restaurants, a three-year gym membership.

  

  Kevin Chamberlin
  • Remember
  • Player
  • Gym

• Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

  

  Augustus
  • World
  • Race
  • Conquerors

• 'I like to see an angry Englishman,' said Poirot. 'They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Emotional
  • Angry

• My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

  

  Debi Thomas
  • Different
  • Mother

• One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Agony
  • Skull
  • Jaw

• You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Work
  • Way
  • Ambition

• A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Soldier
  • Anachronism