H. W. Shaw Quotes

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

I have never let gender get in my way.

I just wanna give a big shout out to all the fans out there who have followed my work up until now. You guys are amazing!! Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Those who understand evil pardon it.

My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

I want to be all used up when I die.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

I hate the title of being called the richest woman in India, but it's the recognition that this was the value that I had created as a woman entrepreneur and that makes me very, very proud.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

I have never let gender get in my way. It has taken me over 30 years to get from a garage to the huge campus that we have today. And it's been a long journey.