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

• I feel overestimated.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Feels

• We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them.

  

  Pattie Maes
  • Problem
  • Looks
  • Discipline

• I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.

  

  Tracy Spiridakos
  • Comedy
  • Hands
  • Animated

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Audience
  • Mirror

• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Baseball
  • Repeat
  • Axiom

• Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.

  

  John Milton
  • World
  • Paradise
  • Fools

• Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.

  

  Colin Chapman
  • Men
  • Smart
  • Rules

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Fools
  • Repeat
  • Same Things