George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Know
  • Knowing

• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Never
  • Doing
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• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  

  Iris Murdoch
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  • Love
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• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Together
  • Understanding
  • Sit

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Universe
  • Anything
  • Stand

• Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Strange

• It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Trying
  • Hurt
  • Smart

• I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Home
  • America
  • Best

• In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Strong

• Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Reading

• But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • People
  • Science
  • Situation

• I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Shows
  • Favorite
  • TV Shows

• Honestly, there have been some pretty good Marvel games, but I don't think there's ever been a great one.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Good
  • Great
  • Think

• True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • True
  • Guilt

• To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Truth
  • Past

• Andre Agassi, in his account of becoming an embittered prodigy, seems never to have liked tennis much, except as a vehicle for achievement. The kids who do like life inside the lines can find the flow within that green-and-white geometry.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Green

• Mercury has cast aside The signs of intellectual pride, Freely offers thee the soul: Art thou noble to receive?Canst thou give or take the whole, Nobly promise and believe? Then thou wholly human art, A spotless, radiant, ruby heart, And the golden chain of love Has bound thee to the realm above.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Art

• I wake up in the morning, and I go, 'I'm Doctor Who! I'm playing Doctor Who. I'm Doctor Who.'

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Up
  • Morning

• So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • People
  • Experience
  • Learning

• Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • God
  • True
  • Artist

• The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • True
  • Belief
  • False