I.B. George Quotes

I get a lot of letters from people.

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice.

I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.

To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles.

We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.

The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.

When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

Wine makes all things possible.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

I’d be anonymous. That’s what I’d do differently.

We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.

Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.

Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

Little redcape," he snarled, "when next you bare steel on Shagga son of Dolf, I will chop off your manhood and roast it in the fire." "What, no goats?" Tyrion said, taking a bite of his cheese.

I'm sorry that I never trusted you. I don't know how to do that anymore.

In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone. "Bread." they clamored. "Bread, Bread!

One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.

Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.

Who ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad.

The best feedback is what we don't want to hear.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it.

Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.

Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.

Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.

The god of war hates those who hesitate.

Why is it that all battles are fought in the middle of the night, in downpouring rain, and at the corners of four different maps?

Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.

When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy.

Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised

I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.