George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Know
  • Learn

• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Sleep
  • Bed

• I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Night
  • Black

• It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

  

  Zac Efron
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Me

• I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • History
  • Think
  • Deep

• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • World
  • Language
  • Learn

• He who knows himself is enlightened.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Himself
  • Enlightened
  • He

• The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Important
  • Heart

• The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Joy

• I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.

  

  Kage Baker

• If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • World
  • Children
  • Book

• Above the mists on Hatheg-Kla, earth's gods sometimes dance reminiscently; for they know they are safe, and love to come from unknown Kadath in ships of clouds and play in the olden way, as they did when earth was new and men not given to the climbing of inaccessible places.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Dance

• Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Screw you, I didn't like your taste anyway, I chose you,That's all gone to waste, It's Saturday, I'll go out and find another you.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Saturday

• I've tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I'm beautiful

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Beautiful
  • Heaven
  • Surfing

• Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Truth
  • Heaven

• I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Darkness

• Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

  

  John Milton
  • Sorrows
  • Seas
  • Wept

• Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Science
  • Humanity
  • Progress

• The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Heaven