I.B. George Quotes

Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.

You're very short, aren't you?" She smirked at Petunia. "And you've got a nose like a stoat," Petunia replied. "But at least I can always have my gowns altered.

A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.

Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens-even when things go wrong.

Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new.

Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.

The real future of America, the best future for ourselves and our children, is to go back in the direction of limited government restrained by the Constitution.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.

There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

I'm not a person who thinks they can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile I should be able to have more than my fair share.

I am a war president.

To die hating them, that was freedom.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.

Government should do a few things, and do them right

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Writing a novel is agony.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.