George Bernard Shaw Quotes
What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.George Bernard Shaw
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
Daley Thompson -
We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
Gary Lineker -
Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
Pat Robertson -
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
Pat Buckley -
I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
Aaron Patzer -
My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
Kate Bush -
I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
Washed Out -
Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
Tawakkol Karman -
Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.
Dan Stevens -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang -
America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
Adam Mansbach -
I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
Walter Cronkite -
I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
Eddie Murphy -
I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
Jacob deGrom
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
Daniel Craig -
I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.
Wadada Leo Smith -
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Without dissatisfaction, there’s no basis for a sale.
Neil Rackham -
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
Homer -
What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.
George Bernard Shaw