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Years Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding…
- People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.
- The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God…
- The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always…
- The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called…
- I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
- After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply…
- In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty…
- It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be…
- It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and…
- [...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered…
- Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
- Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years…
- Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a…
- We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
- The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
- I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals…
- If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
- If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz