George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Priority
  • Possible
  • Spend

• The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Road
  • Dead
  • Lawyer

• Robots are good at things that are structured.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Good
  • Things
  • Robots

• Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Money
  • Business

• Everything begins with an idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Idea
  • Everything
  • Begins

• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Politics
  • Win

• When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Generation
  • Step
  • Recycling

• I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Never
  • Working
  • Class

• There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Thought

• My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Day

• Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Education
  • Cool
  • Jail

• I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Why
  • Man

• I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Culture

• I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Information
  • Leaving
  • Accept

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Genius

• Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin, Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Lust

• Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Pretty
  • Farmer

• I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

  

  Jean Craighead George
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Hope

• Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Great

• I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

  

  Joseph Rotblat
  • Science
  • Humanity
  • Harmony

• The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Truth
  • Energy
  • Honor