George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

George Bernard Shaw

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• If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • Selfish

• Decision – making is very scary for me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Scary

• There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Bible
  • Sick
  • Talking

• The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Nightmare
  • Fairytale
  • Turned

• I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Success
  • You
  • Learned

• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Nervous
  • Plane
  • Turbulence

• Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • True
  • Control
  • Military

• I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Done
  • Reason
  • Doing

• I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Something
  • Convince
  • Novels

• When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Live
  • Unknown
  • Plants

• I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Day
  • Meditation
  • Twice

• It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Genius
  • Independence

• You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Hollywood

• So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Audience
  • Show
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• I have a rich, full, textured life.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Full

• If one basic axiom controls the cosmos, it must be this: In a situation of infinity every possible condition occurs, not once, but an infinite number of times.

  

  Jack Vance

• Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Jesus
  • Fight
  • Grace

• By 1940, Arado had 8,000 workers; by 1944 it had 9,500. Almost thirty-five percent were foreign-born. You may ask why the Nazis would allow so many foreigners to work in a high-security company. I tell you, I really believe it was because Hitler insisted that Aryan women must be protected breeding machines whose major task was to stay home and have babies.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Security
  • Workers
  • Hitler

• Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • World
  • Civilization
  • Destruction

• Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Security
  • Civilization
  • Pretense