George Bernard Shaw Quotes

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

George Bernard Shaw

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• It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.

  

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• Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

  

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• 'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.

  

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• I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

  

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• It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

  

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• Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

  

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• My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

  

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• I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

  

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• I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

  

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• As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

  

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• I will persist until I succeed. I was not deIivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd.

  

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• O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.

  

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• The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

  

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• So poisonousAre the ravishments of truth, so fatal to The truth itself, the first idea becomes The hermit in a poet’s metaphors,Who comes and goes and comes and goes all day.

  

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• I keep hearing this expletive thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people.

  

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• The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.

  

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• A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

  

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• The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

  

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• Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.

  

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• Before you take your address, while you're still reading the putt, imagine the ball tracking on the line you've chosen and falling into the cup. If you don't believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?

  

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• When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Law
  • Order
  • Morals