George Bernard Shaw Quotes

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Time
  • Love
  • Funny

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Bad
  • You
  • Fighting

• The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Money
  • Passion
  • Destiny

• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Sleep
  • Unfortunate

• Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • World
  • Single
  • Effort

• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Alien
  • Hinduism
  • Intolerance

• Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happen

• The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Yourself

• First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-standing happy couples who slept together right away, spent hours yakking on the phone, split checks down the middle, and lived together for years before the wedding.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Work
  • Find

• Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Film

• Historically, the National Religious Party, which my party - Jewish Home - is built upon, has aligned itself in consecutive Israeli governments with the ultra-Orthodox factions.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Home
  • Party
  • Religious

• Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Done
  • Evil
  • Decision

• You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.

  

  Billy Joel
  • School
  • Learn
  • Accidents

• Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Desire
  • Soldier
  • Glory

• Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

  

  Helen Keller
  • World
  • Enough
  • Sadness

• For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Adventure

• We love peace, but not peace at any price.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold
  • Peace

• First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Curiosity