George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Family
  • Grow

• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • War
  • Tragedy

• Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Freedom
  • Taken
  • Judge

• I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Know

• Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Women
  • America

• As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Father
  • Boy
  • Wishes

• It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.

  

  Owen Hart
  • People
  • Horse
  • Fake

• How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Wonder
  • Terror
  • Confront

• That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • People
  • Strange
  • Phenomenon

• Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Men
  • Women
  • Simple

• You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Go
  • Be

• Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

  

  Charles Davenport
  • Parents
  • Offspring

• Laws are the silent assessors of God.

  

  William R. Alger
  • God
  • Laws
  • Assessors

• Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Speculation
  • Assurance

• One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Rules
  • Cannot

• We always feel better in anticipation. You don't think about something and think 'Aw, it's gonna be shitty.' NO! You say 'This is gonna be the greatest weekend ever! Sonuvabitch!' And then, by Monday, you're throwing up and you're thinking 'You know, I always thought those guys were pricks!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Weekend

• The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Humanity
  • Glory
  • Voicefulness

• I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Voice
  • Lucky
  • Rhythm

• Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Fools
  • Repeat
  • Same Things