George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

George Bernard Shaw

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• My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

  Gail Devers
  • Live
  • Want
  • I Can

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Responsibility

• Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Best

• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • True
  • Crazy

• Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • History
  • Political

• Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Up
  • Small
  • Stand

• Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Different
  • Sleep
  • Astronauts

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Home
  • She

• When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Mother
  • Me
  • See

• Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Great
  • America
  • Destruction

• It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Work
  • Together
  • Group

• I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Enjoy
  • Hollywood
  • Bollywood

• For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Good
  • Important
  • Game

• So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
  • Body
  • Speak

• It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Words
  • Spirit
  • Actions

• True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means, for the simple reason that the natural corollary to their use would be to remove all opposition through the suppression or extermination of the antagonists.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • True
  • Simple
  • Democracy

• Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Life
  • Together
  • True

• I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

  

  Eva Green
  • Blood
  • Cinema
  • Citizen

• Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Words
  • Doctor
  • Employee