George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Jacob Bronowski -
To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.
R. C. Sproul -
Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
R. C. Sproul -
What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?
R. C. Sproul -
Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.
Walker Evans -
I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.
Nicki Minaj
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If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.
Anne Hull -
Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for me.
Jason Mraz -
Who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.
Eliot Spitzer -
Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.
Betty Smith -
Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.
Abraham Lincoln -
Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.
John Wilkins
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I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
Muhammad Ali -
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van Gogh -
God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.
William Sloane Coffin -
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.
Plato -
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
George Bernard Shaw