George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft...

George Bernard Shaw

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• The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• The audition process for 'Are You There, Chelsea?' was overwhelming and exciting. It was my first pilot season and one of the first pilots I auditioned for.

  

  Lauren Lapkus

• Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

  

  Alex Borstein
  • Rock
  • Star

• You've got to talk to your kids as both a parent and a friend.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Kids
  • Friend

• I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • People

• Soccer can be very subtle; it's a very nuanced sport. If I happen to make things easy and people don't see it, that could be a reason why someone might stand out more than I do. But that's just the way I've grown up playing the game.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

  

  David Ogilvy
  • She
  • Wife

• When you are Uber, what we care about is the customer experience of getting somebody safely, cheaply, efficiently and reliably from where they are to where they want to go.

  

  Anthony Levandowski
  • Experience

• Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don't know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is something that could happen to someone at any level in their career.

  

  Kristen Schaal
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• We must understand that what Pascal said is true of every human being in the whole of space-time, ourselves included-'The last act is tragic, however pleasant all the comedy of the other acts. A little earth on our heads, and all is done with forever.'-understand it in our bones, so that we can live with it calmly if not serenely.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Time
  • Live
  • Done

• We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Knowledge
  • Moving
  • Wisdom

• [I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Kill
  • Destroy
  • Destruction

• The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Avoid
  • Conquest
  • Same Thing

• I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Smile
  • Sexy
  • Exciting

• Being part of a team that belongs to everyone makes me feel good and at peace with myself.

  

  Andrea Pirlo
  • Team
  • Peace
  • Feel

• Gena Rowlands is my all-time love. Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer. I grew up watching their work; they are extraordinary.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Watching

• The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here--and that is a blessing--do we have the conditions to learn how to self-regulate our own passions for the good of the whole?

  

  Warren St. John
  • Opportunity
  • Passion
  • Economic

• As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Words
  • Fire

• Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Knows
  • Started
  • Witchcraft

• I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Children
  • Protect

• It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the express benediction of Pope Gregory XIII that the butchery of St. Bartholomew drenched Paris in blood.

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Evil
  • Jesus
  • Religious

• Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Witchcraft
  • Medical science
  • Differentiated