"It is not the number of years..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.
More by George Bernard Shaw
“My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.”
“Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.”
“I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.”
More on Future
“It's not dependency that creates your future. It's independence that creates your better future.”
“We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.”
“It doesn't matter what it is.What matters is what it will become.”
More on Responsibility
“Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.”
“If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.”
“When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.”