I.B. George Quotes

What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.

I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.

My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!

His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself

If you cannot solve the proposed problem try to solve first some related problem.

There exist a lot of questions that the fools can ask, and the intelligent cannot answer.

The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible.

Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.

The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever-- The union of hearts--the union of hands-- And the flag of our Union for ever!

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.

Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.

Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.

On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon.

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Those are brave men... lets go kill them

If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.

Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?

I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all....a day.....an hour.

Men have scars, women mysteries.

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.

For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.

When I sleep I turn into a wolf. Bran turned his face away and looked back out into the night. Do wolves dreams?

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

Dark wings, dark words.