I.B. George Quotes
In England the boy pats his adored one on the back and says softly, "I don't object, you know." If he is quite mad with passion, he may add: "I rather fancy you, in fact.
Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.
The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.
The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.
There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.
It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.
The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.
Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.
There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.
they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.
We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.
In America, the most important thing is that people have freedom. In restricted countries, the most important thing is what people do with freedom.
The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.
The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities.
This is global governance in the making. But we must agree, and agree to a binding commitment.
After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.
You can't find the answers on the bottom of a whiskey glass, but if you look hard enough you'll forget the questions.
I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think I am a theoretician.
When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.
We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean--the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims.
Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.
Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.
The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.
The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.
I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.
The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.
It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.