I.B. George Quotes

In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.

It's fun to slap people around.

I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.

I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.

As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.

Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.

There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.

Life is not measured by the time we live.

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.

Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.

There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.

Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views, Life's little cares and little pains refuse? Shall he not rather feel a double share Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear?

Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.

The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.

Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.

The game is never lost till won.

All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the grael spread.

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of heart her every look convey'd.

Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.

We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.

Life's bloomy flush was lost.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

Good is done by degrees.

Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.

It is easy to write unthinking music.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.