George Bernard Shaw Quotes

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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• I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Kind
  • Cool
  • Obsessed

• Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Remember
  • American

• You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Sometimes

• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Confidence
  • Line
  • Arrogance

• There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Sharing

• We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Wish
  • Deep
  • Look

• I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Strong
  • Spirit
  • Rebellious

• I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Inspiration
  • Athlete
  • Champion

• What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Pain

• Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Women
  • Love
  • Experience

• The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Reason
  • Process
  • Results

• I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Hand
  • Born
  • Pencil

• Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Age

• I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Material

• Ukraine is facing a serious threat of isolation as some local political forces want to put an end to democracy and democratic reforms in the country

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • Country
  • Political
  • Democracy

• The conscious side of woman corresponds to the emotional side of man, not to his 'mind.' Mind makes up the soul, or better, the 'animus' of woman, and just as the anima of a man consists of inferior relatedness, full of affect, so the animus of woman consists of inferior judgments, or better, opinions.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Soul

• I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

  

  Paul Charles Caravello Kiss
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Love
  • Fact
  • Asking

• When people 'succeed' they tend to party, when they 'fail' they tend to ponder.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Succeed
  • Failing

• Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Love
  • Help
  • Wise

• It's the first time I'm going to be on my own this Christmas and I'm really looking forward to not having any cards or decorations up. So I'll be in London, sit on my couch, arms folded, curtains drawn, having a drink.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Christmas

• You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Time
  • Write
  • Books