George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

George Bernard Shaw

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• All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Giving
  • Mad
  • Name

• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Home
  • Play
  • Present

• I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Women
  • Career
  • Thought

• I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Man

• The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Just
  • Computer
  • Laptop

• The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Years
  • First
  • Event

• In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Sense

• It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Why
  • Feeling

• Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Time
  • Music
  • Choice

• I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Husband

• I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Different
  • Roles
  • System

• I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Money
  • Done
  • Problem

• When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Time
  • See

• Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Wife
  • Neighbor
  • Others

• Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Rest
  • Company
  • Oil

• The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Live
  • Education
  • Learning

• I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Player
  • Clay
  • Surfaces

• Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Dark
  • Singing
  • Honest

• Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Life
  • Friend

• Be a companion with Christ, and he will draw near unto you and be your best friend. There is no better friend than Christ.

  

  William R. Bradford
  • Friend
  • Christ
  • Draws

• You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Better

• Anything you don’t understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Friend
  • Person
  • Enemy