George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

George Bernard Shaw

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• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Recognise

• You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Want
  • Words
  • Body

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Long
  • Live
  • Experience

• In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Woman
  • Teacher
  • Doctor

• I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • World
  • Always
  • Her

• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Value
  • Like
  • Proverbs

• I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • World
  • Humanitarian
  • Activist

• 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Pilot

• I think so badly of philosophy that I don't like to talk about it. … I do not want to say anything bad about my dear colleagues, but the profession of teacher of philosophy is a ridiculous one. We don't need a thousand of trained, and badly trained, philosophers - it is very silly. Actually most of them have nothing to say.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Bad
  • Teacher
  • Silly

• There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent.But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Heart
  • Power

• I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Holiday

• The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature

• Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Power
  • Control

• Imagination comes of not having things.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Imagination

• You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Up
  • Dream

• There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • People
  • Music
  • Cancer

• If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

  

  Peter Davison

• I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. Most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life
  • Good
  • Nature

• The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Good
  • Real
  • Fighting

• Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

  

  William Empson
  • Men
  • Cold
  • Devil

• Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Devil
  • Passions