George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
Quotes to Explore
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Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.
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A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.
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We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills.
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Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.
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How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.
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Trust is a great force multiplier.
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Volunteerism is vital in all times; it keeps our communities alive...and will make a difference in the lives of those who will come after us.
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I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.
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For me, architecture is a social act.
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If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
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Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.
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In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.
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I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.
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A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.
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There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.
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I'm really disappointed that they did not make it.
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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
