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Moment Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right…
- The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right…
- The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the…
- The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
- The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
- When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."
- This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead…
- Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class,…
- Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
- If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
- The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
- Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and…
- A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is…
- When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of…
- We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
- I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the…
- What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is…
- I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its…
- I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the…
- Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and…
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