The Shaw Confessionsions Quotes

#1. Sometimes to escape the noise of haunting memories, you need your best friends hand in your own, to help erase the sound and fill you with a sense of peace, even if it's temporary. #Quote by Andrea Michelle

#2. Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#3. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#4. I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#5. I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory. #Quote by Katharine Cornell

#6. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#7. The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#8. Our past is a fictional representation, and the only thing we can be even somewhat sure of is what is happening now. It encourages us to live in the moment and not to place too much importance on our past. It forces us to accept that the best time of our lives, and our memory, is right now. And #Quote by Julia Shaw

#9. I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans. #Quote by Irwin Shaw

#10. I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#11. The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead has advised us to "seek simplicity and distrust it. #Quote by Scott Richard Shaw

#12. My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. #Quote by Irwin Shaw

#13. Shall I turn up the light for you?
No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#14. I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity. #Quote by Artie Shaw

#15. The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#16. Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#17. In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#18. A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#19. Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#20. A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#21. The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#22. Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#23. No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#24. i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit. #Quote by Johnny Shaw

#25. It's time, little one," he coaxes from above me.
I take a deep breath as I crawl to where he instructs me. My heart is racing and I feel like tears could be close again. But I am resolved. I am going to do this. I know my own wilful obstinacy will see me into the stocks and from there it really is up to Shaw. He positions me in front of the stocks and waits a few seconds, letting me absorb their magnitude, before speaking.
"Kneel."
Just one word but it seals my fate. I comply immediately, wordlessly, allowing my terror to turn into the first shoots of arousal. This is really happening ... #Quote by Felicity Brandon

#26. What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#27. The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#28. I have never sneered in my life. Sneering doesn't become either the human face or the human soul. I am expressing my righteous contempt for Commercialism. I don't and wont trade in affection. You call me a brute because you couldn't buy a claim on me by fetching my slippers and finding my spectacles. You were a fool: I think a woman fetching a man's slippers is a disgusting sight: did I ever fetch your slippers? I think a good deal more of you for throwing them in my face. No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#29. Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#30. In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#31. There is no love sincerer than the love of food. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#32. Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#33. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#34. There's so much time, endless time, and I stand here in the centre of it with my dick in my hand, completely clueless. #Quote by Michelle Hodkin

#35. There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems of inequality and privilege. #Quote by Susan Shaw

#36. Varney and Tefnakhte looked at Greta. After a moment she sighed, pushed her hair back. 'I don't know why everyone seems to think I'm the one in charge here; we're all equally making this up as we go along.'

'Because you are,' said Tefnakhte mildly. #Quote by Vivian Shaw

#37. women were considered instinctual nurses in this generation - the field had received exciting publicity during the Spanish-American War when an Army Nursing Corps had served overseas in the Philippines. Clara Weeks-Shaw, the author of a popular textbook on nursing, promoted the field as "a new activity for women - congenial, honorable and remunerative and with permanent value to them in the common experience of domestic life."3 In readable language, Weeks-Shaw presented nursing as an artful balance between self-reliance and submission. Overall its practices were an extension of maternity, requiring the classic female behaviors of cheerfulness (to the patients) and obedience (to the doctors). "Never leave a doctor alone with a gynecology patient except at his request," went one injunction. #Quote by Jean H. Baker

#38. Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#39. As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw