George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
Quotes to Explore
-
We feel and know that we are eternal.
-
I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
-
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
-
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
-
Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
-
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
-
Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.
-
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
-
We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
-
Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
-
One does not have humor. It has you.
-
We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.
-
I write about one of my bills that says pharmacists cannot be doctors. They cannot determine what they will or will not sell, and you find that many pharmacists will not sell birth control. The movement has gone not just against the access of reproductive rights to abortion; the movement has gone to birth control. They're going after birth control.
-
The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.
-
You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.
-
The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
-
It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
