George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

George Bernard Shaw

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• You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Think
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• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Death

• Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • True
  • Materials
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• Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

  

  J. D. Greear
  • God
  • Heart
  • Stories

• Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.

  

  Edwin Meese
  • Country
  • Terrorist
  • Club

• I’m a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Nobody
  • Everybody
  • Somebody

• Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

  

  Virginia Woolf

• No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Bridge
  • Construct

• I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Children
  • Kind
  • Violence

• Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.

  

  Edmund Blunden
  • Think
  • Creed
  • Devise

• I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Hero
  • Force
  • Used

• I love Barbados, it's really relaxing.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Love
  • Really
  • Relaxing

• In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • Truth
  • Future
  • Products

• We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Future
  • Perfect

• Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I'd never booked a show in my life, but that I'd played so many because I'd been invited?

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Life
  • Pride
  • Show

• For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Long
  • Important
  • Art

• Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Public
  • Advantage

• Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Nowadays
  • Human Misery
  • Imaginary miseries