George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Enjoy
  • Race
  • motivation

• I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

  

  Gary Wright
  • God
  • Rest
  • Hands

• There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Courage

• Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Discrimination

• A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Inspired
  • Ocean
  • Paris

• It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Political
  • Training
  • Office

• What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.

  

  Zendaya
  • Today
  • Cool
  • Tomorrow

• I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Different
  • Long
  • Home

• There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Fear

• Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Child

• I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Reading
  • Day

• The audience is the barometer of the truth.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Truth
  • Audience
  • Barometer

• I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Great
  • Amazing
  • Rich

• No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

  

  Leland Ryken
  • People

• It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There's no room for courtesy or chivalry here.

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • Different
  • Door
  • Library

• If you don't know that God loves you, he does. He loves his creation. And you're his creation.

  

  Lacey Mosley
  • God

• I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Believe
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• To obtain salvation we must tremble at the thought of being lost, and tremble not so much at the thought of hell, as of sin, which alone can send us thither. He who dreads sin avoids dangerous occasions, frequently recommends himself to God, and has recourse to the means of keeping himself in the state of grace. He who acts thus will be saved; but for him who lives not in this manner it is morally impossible to be saved.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Lost
  • Alone

• How you manage change can make all the difference.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • You
  • Change
  • Difference

• We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Way
  • Difference
  • Agreement

• The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Difference
  • Lady
  • Behaves