George Bernard Shaw Quotes

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950

Topics

ManTigerHimHeWantsFerocity

I will always have dogs in my life, and I absolutely can't be with someone who will challenge that or disagree with that stance - I will not budge on this, ever.

Jenna Morasca

LifeChallengeMy LifeSomeoneWill

You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.

Matt Taibbi

LiveTruckNightSocietyYouKnow

Great weight should be given to the judgment of professionals on what information, if disclosed, would harm national security.

Michael Hayden

GreatInformationSecurityJudgment

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

Michael Badnarik

YourselfGovernmentMeFindI Can

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

Rory McIlroy

MoneyI AmBuildingThinkGolfLook

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Lucian Freud

TruthStrikeTrueMoreSomething

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Jean Cocteau

ManArtistLivingMust

I had managers approaching me in high school asking me if I wanted to act professionally, but to me, having to miss school to do that meant missing time with my friends, which was completely unacceptable.

Chris Lowell

TimeSchoolMeHigh SchoolFriends

Shore Leave is the one who evolved the most - because he started as a one-off joke because we were gagging on how the G.I. Joe vocationally specific-themed characters reminded us of the Village People. We made a sassy Village People kind of guy, and then we brought him back.

Christopher McCulloch

PeopleBackVillageKindSassyHim

Creating jobs for your country's workers is about much more than ensuring that the balance sheets of your country's companies are strong, or stimulating domestic demand. It is about figuring out how your country's workers fit into the global economy.

Chrystia Freeland

BalanceStrongCountryCreatingMore

I've always been a writer.

Peter Coyote

AlwaysBeenWriter

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'

Shashi Tharoor

FearWorldIndiaQuestionFirstWho

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