George Bernard Shaw Quotes

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

  

  Karl Rove
  • World
  • Business
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• We ended up with some pretty good quality videos for next to nothing. We just thought it would be interesting to put WAV files on a DVD and let people burn CDs if they want. CDs are so expensive. I can't remember the last time I bought a new CD.

  

  Sam Brown
  • People
  • Up
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• Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Culture
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• There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Woman
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• I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Up
  • Thinking
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• He (Lakers owner Jerry Buss) knew what he was trying to get accomplished, but still in all, it never quite seems to match up.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Up
  • Trying
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• I truly believe that I make my path and I set my course, and where I land, at the end of the day, or the end of my career, [is] because of me. Of course, you get help along the way, and cosigns and management and opportunities and things like that but overall, the ball is in your court basically.

  

  J. Cole
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Career

• The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its sombre boughs and cries, 'Thou art my sun.' And the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue, and whispers with its perfumed breath, 'Thou art my sun.' And the grain in a thousand fields rustles in the wind, and makes answer, 'Thou art my sun.' So God sits effulgent in heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life; and there is no creature so poor or so low that he may not look up with childish confidence and say, 'My Father, Thou art mine.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Sun
  • Shine
  • Trees

• Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head

  

  William Cowper

• Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

  

  Euripides
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Chains

• The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Power
  • Question
  • Mischief

• The stability of the rate is the main issue and the Central Bank manages to ensure it one way or another. This was finally achieved after the Central Bank switched to a floating national currency exchange rate.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Rate
  • Manage
  • Stability

• Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Culture
  • Humanity
  • Salvation

• To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Desert

• A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.

  

  William Morris

• There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

  

  William McFee
  • Reading
  • Sea
  • Pleasure

• I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Reading
  • Wonderful
  • Experiments

• What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Attention
  • Literature
  • Criticism

• I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.

  

  Chris Adrian
  • Want
  • Reason
  • Creatures

• We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

  

  Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
  • Forgotten
  • Creatures
  • Guests

• His mane was like a crest, mounting, then falling low. His neck was long and slender, and arched to the small, savagely beautiful head. The head was that of the wildest of all wild creatures- a stallion born wild- and it was beautiful, savage, splendid. A stallion with a wonderful physical perfection that matched his savage, ruthless spirit.

  

  Walter Farley
  • Beautiful
  • Wonderful
  • Perfection

• It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Creatures
  • Helpless
  • During