George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

George Bernard Shaw

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• The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Important
  • Women
  • Money

• When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Community

• Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Power
  • Death

• Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Mean
  • Sound
  • Jazz

• If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Feels
  • Ifs
  • Outsiders

• It is not withdrawal but redeployment of forces from Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast as the violence level has come down.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Violence
  • Kashmir
  • Redeployment

• Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.

  

  William Harvey
  • Care
  • Body
  • Disease

• You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Hair
  • Loss
  • Lament

• Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the total could fill a suitcase. Every single day during our relationship, no matter where in the world I was, I'd get a telegram from Frank saying he loved me and missed me. He was a man who was deseperate for companionship and love. Can you wonder that he always had mine!

  

  Ava Gardner
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Wonder

• The Wizard Of Oz" has secrets that are just too much. Or "Peter Pan" – the whole 'lost boys' thing is just incredible. They’re not childlike at all, they’re really, really deep; you can rule your life by them. Or say 'child-like', because children are the most brilliant people of all, that’s why they relate to those stories so well. Fairy-tales are wonderful.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Secrets
  • Peter Pan
  • Wizard Of Oz

• How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

  

  Isabel Allende
  • Poverty
  • Speak
  • Voice

• Next time you go get bin Laden, don't call it Operation Geronimo, and if anyone wants to stand toe-to-toe with me and talk about it, I'm open, brother.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Operation
  • Bin Laden
  • Geronimo

• What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed on order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe another. Compare.

  

  Georges Perec
  • Question
  • Describe
  • Astonish

• I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

  

  Isaac Marion
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Montage

• The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Describe
  • Operation
  • Surgeons