I.B. George Quotes

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar.

Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

Sport is cultural. What the star athlete does helps to define the culture. What the star athlete does on a Canadian team, especially if he or she is Canadian, helps define Canadian-ness.

I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.

Obviously I still gig on my own, but I've always heard my music with a band.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

If we were to do as well as we know, our salvation would be secure.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is.

Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.

Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!