George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeWouldTolerable

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Joe E. Lewis

MoneyManMeYouWillLittle

Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.

John Krasinski

FightInsecurityThinkYouFall

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

Matthew Modine

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I'm willing to play any position.

Alvaro Morata

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I like my easy life at home. I like to live in Switzerland. I like to be with my wife, with my daughter, to take my daughter to school, to lead a normal life. I try everything possible to keep that.

Stan Wawrinka

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It's like, what if you get a set of tires that aren't balanced right or a driveshaft that's vibrating. That could create a problem. You try to think of every possible scenario of what can make you uncomfortable and try to come up with a solution for it.

Tony Stewart

ThinkProblemSolutionUncomfortable

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

Joshua Chamberlain

SickBattleFindMarchPlacesLine

I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.

Diane von Furstenberg

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Before I was elected to Congress, I worked in a courtroom. For years, I defended doctors and hospitals, and for years, I sued them on behalf of people who were victims of medical malpractice.

Dick Durbin

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Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.

Douglas Tompkins

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I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

Willie Stargell

EarlyYearsOutcastPartRaised

When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity.

Philip Hammond

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