George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

George Bernard Shaw

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• The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.

  

  Hans Vestberg
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• As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.

  

  Dan Quinn
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• I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
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• Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

  

  Jack Gantos
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• Fear must rule in a despotism.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
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• Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

  

  Alan Rickman
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• This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

  

  Hadley Freeman
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• For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
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• I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it's not my fault, if I've done nothing wrong, I'm not charged with manslaughter, he's gonna die, because he's on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
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• I am thrilled. I love movies. I don't have those nagging, regretful feelings about either of them, it is a miracle.

  

  Kristen Stewart
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• Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• I'm sick of people saying I hate blacks, women, and gays. It's false and slanderous. Everyone who knows me knows I hate the Chinese.

  

  Zach Braff
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  • Women
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• Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left

  

  George Clooney
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• Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

  

  Haruki Murakami
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• This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
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• Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Burden
  • Tyranny
  • Revolutions