George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• And our dreams are who we are.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Dreams
  • Our
  • Our Dreams

• I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • World
  • Die
  • Afraid

• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Cool
  • Drama

• Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Beast

• As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Child
  • Young
  • Illness

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Help
  • Thought
  • Movies

• There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Child
  • Creative
  • Hunger

• To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Women
  • Me
  • Size

• There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Movie
  • Powerful
  • Decision

• I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Country

• Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

• A sensible human once said, 'If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit'; and again, 'She's the sort of woman who lives for others-you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
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  • Feeling

• And you stood there in front of me justClose enough to touch,Close enough to hope you couldn't seeWhat I was thinking of.Drop everything now,Meet me in the pouring rain.Kiss me on the sidewalk,Take away the pain.'Cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Pain

• All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. The rock bands are rather drab, even the good ones. You definitely don't want to look at them. But some of those R&B people are very good.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Αἰόλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων κακά,πόνου δ᾽ ἴδοις ἂν οὐδαμοῦ ταὐτὸν πτερόν.

  

  Aeschylus

• No one at all understands why it is possible for the plant cell that bears within its substance one of these green chlorophyll bodies to combine certain inorganic elements into nutritious foods, a feat that no human chemist can perform.

  

  Luther Burbank
  • Why
  • Green
  • Plant

• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Ideas

• I had been watching 'Home and Away' for quite a while, so joining the cast was quite weird. The show is so fast-paced, and at first it was overwhelming, but at the same time was quite laid back.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Time
  • Home
  • Weird

• The sun shines even on the wicked.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Sun
  • Wicked

• Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Universe
  • Forces
  • Aid