George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Man
  • You
  • Hand

• Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Help
  • Sense
  • Bewildering

• I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Always
  • Really
  • Rhythm

• I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Future
  • You
  • Know

• The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Student
  • Restaurant
  • Reviews

• I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Old

• The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Sin

• I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Running

• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
  • Politics

• I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Important
  • Know
  • Doing

• They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Long
  • Bad

• CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Women
  • Health
  • Religious

• Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Islamic
  • Nations
  • Philippines

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Party
  • Better
  • Communist

• I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Think
  • Control
  • Person

• Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mother

• I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Political
  • Path
  • Economic

• My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • She
  • Mom

• If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

  

  Sarah Churchwell
  • Party
  • Memories
  • Ends

• I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • World
  • Love
  • Think

• Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Cold
  • Contentment
  • Caught

• Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Enough
  • Lying
  • Perception

• Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Afraid