George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Innocent
  • September
  • Islam

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Real
  • She
  • Comedy

• Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • Now
  • Immigrants

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Friend
  • Followers
  • Paranoia

• As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Want
  • You
  • Focus

• Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Life
  • Player
  • Better

• To go back means defeat.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Back
  • Go
  • Defeat

• It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Social

• Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • School
  • Respect
  • Peace

• For filming, we have to wear a lot more makeup than we usually would. At night, I have to go home and take off all the makeup and take my hair out from my bun and just get out of the dancewear and everything.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Home
  • Night
  • Hair

• I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Black
  • You
  • Wish

• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Why
  • Leader
  • Manager

• Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • You
  • Right
  • Whatever

• When you're eight or nine years old and you look at the TV set men are landing on the moon - anything is possible. And that is something we need to not lose sight of, is that the inspiration and permission to dream is immense. … It's important to have specific dreams.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Dream
  • Inspiration
  • Specific

• Every song on '10 Day' is a completely different sound - the cadence, the flow, even the production - because I like so many different types of music and because my taste is so refined. 'Acid Rap' is another tape where every song sounds different.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Die
  • Fall

• Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Changes
  • Short
  • Software

• There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Alone
  • Option

• Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led since 1945 in the Western world is very rare in human history. Our children are unlikely to enjoy anything so placid, and may well spend their adult years in an ugly and savage world unless we decide that who and what we are is worth defending.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • Thought