I.B. George Quotes

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.

He was a father. That's what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.

My stories, I can understand them as a little toy that you wind up and you put it on the floor and it just goes under the coach. That I get. Beyond that, I'm a little lost.

In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they kiss, like two fish. That actually does happen.

I'm not a natural criticizer - I prefer to like and praise and so on.

If you could press a button and your ego investment was less, the toothache would be less. Or less tragic at least.

Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.

I'm a control freak. I'm defensive. And I'm an egomaniac. That's true about me.

I'm not thinking in any big thematic or conceptual terms - especially in this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] when I was trying to make the voices more active, more energetic.

If politicians would think more they would act less.

The greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

I drink alone. Yeah, with nobody else. You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.

Rock 'n' roll never sleeps it just passes out.

It does not seem to me as if I were living in the country in which I was born.

What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination.

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.

I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.

I'm not so sure the role of the United States is going around the world saying this is the way its gotta be.

Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'

The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs.

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

If you're a single mother with two children, which is the toughest job in America as far as I'm concerned, and you're working hard to put food on your family.

The best diplomacy starts with getting to know each other.

It's time to restore honor and dignity to the White House.

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.

Now the Taliban will pay a price.

The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.

You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.

The easiest time to be faithful is during a time of crisis. The hardest time for faith is when all is well.

The United States Navy carries the might and the mission of America to the farthest parts of the world.