I.B. George Quotes

It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny

What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.

The aspect of sport that you learn is that you have your good times and your bad times, but you share it with great people.

We conquer, not in any brilliant fashion-we conquer by continuing.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

I'm going to teach you about men. Distances are like men. Never grab the first one you see; it's never the best one, more will come along.

The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.

Communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

Atheists are not Americans.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. I mean to be president of all the people.

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.

We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.

Old guys can still do fun things.

Every loss of life is terrible.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

Read my lips-NO NEW TAXES!

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more 'dates' than me.

I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

All religions are branches of one big tree.

I'd like to think that all the old Beatle fans have grown up and they've got married and they've all got kids and they're all more responsible, but they still have a space in their hearts for us.

Chanting Hare Krishna can make a person a better Christian.

Krishna is God, and by chanting His Holy Names, the devotee quickly develops God-consciousness.

Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now.

Create and preserve the image of your choice.

I am part of the cycle, rebirth death, rebirth death, rebirth death.

Everybody is looking for Krishna. Some don't realize that they are, but they are.

Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

Would you know what money is, go borrow some.

If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.

By doing nothing we learne to do ill.