George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

George Bernard Shaw

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• There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Going

• The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Universe
  • Seems
  • Neither

• No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Long
  • Church
  • Religion

• I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Fun
  • Football
  • Sports

• I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Moment

• I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Never
  • Been
  • Jealous

• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
  • Art
  • Parents

• I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Choices
  • Tears
  • Product

• The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Good
  • Business
  • Small

• If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Real
  • Want
  • See

• Failure is a part of success.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Part

• You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • You
  • Powerful
  • Aggressive

• We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Small
  • Down

• I'm obsessed with brows, so Revlon's ColorStay Eyebrow Liner is a must, and the Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Rendezvous is another obsession.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Just
  • Obsession
  • Stain

• I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• Little things please little minds.

  

  Ovid
  • Things
  • Minds
  • Little Things

• The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Family
  • Night
  • Day

• There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Black
  • Enough
  • Latin

• Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Facts

• All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.

  

  Aristotle
  • Moral
  • Brave
  • Qualities

• We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Poetry
  • Morality
  • Pantheists

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dream

• Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Morality
  • System
  • Virtues