George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.

Quotes to Explore
-
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
-
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
-
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
-
I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
-
We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
-
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
-
Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
-
I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.
-
I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
-
Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
-
When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
-
Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
-
I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
-
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
-
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
-
That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
-
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
-
Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
-
I have a very, very healthy relationship with food in that I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I never restrict quantities or types of food.
-
Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.
-
When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.
-
Of living creatures, business men are nearest sane; their philosophy is as accurate as their multiplication table.
-
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
-
Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.