George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
Quotes to Explore
-
Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
-
God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
-
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
-
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
-
I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne Westwood. And I always have huge success in Omah Shoes, which is also in Taunton. I've got such small feet - three and a half - but I always find my size there.
-
I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
-
Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
-
Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
-
A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
-
Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
-
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
-
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
-
I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
-
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
-
The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
-
I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
-
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
-
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
-
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
-
I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
-
The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.
-
What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.
-
Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities.
-
Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
