Bernard Shaw Torch Quotes

#1. You do not need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.

Franz Kafka

#2. in wartime, economic activity decreases, inflation increases, and real wages and purchasing power begin to fall. Wages at the bottom of the wage scale generally rise, however, and are somewhat more generously protected from inflation than those at the top.

Thomas Piketty

#3. Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

Phyllis McGinley

#4. Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

John Tillotson

#5. I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

Van Morrison

#6. His tone dripping condescension, Lothaire crooned, "Ah children, it's not yet story time." He closed his eyes and turned away, saying over his shoulder, "To anyone who contemplates even nearing me while I sleep: I will garrote you with your own viscera.

Kresley Cole

#7. He's been so changeable with her I'm surprised he's not been accepted to Hogwarts for his transfiguration skills.

Holly Bourne

#8. At least Ozymandias had a statue erected in his name. If I were to have died at that moment, the only thing I had managed to erect in my honor was a shrine to China's manufacturing capabilities.

Michael Gurnow

#9. Why do so many black and Hispanic people vote for liberals who so energetically support the murder of black and Hispanic babies?

Bristol Palin

#10. I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

Jackie Robinson

#11. God evaluates by this criterion: How much love you invest in what you do is more important than how you do. The one who loves much is actually the one who does much.

Thomas A Kempis

#12. The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let's try something else. I'll go get a teaching job or something.'

Jeff Lindsay