I.B. George Quotes

Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Good luck has its storms.

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

A hero is someone right who doesn't change.

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.