I.B. George Quotes

The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope.

Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

I'm the world heavyweight champion. I consider myself a citizen of the whole world.

I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.

Before a fight between Riddick Bowe and Hector Gonzales: Generally when there's a lot of smoke . . . there's just a whole lot more smoke.

If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

People trust me. I sell sincerity.

I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, "We gotcha." America gotcha.

The Bible is a Perfect Map and Chart to the Christian on Pilgrimage Through the World.

A research division develops marketing material for its deal makers. We have no policy position. If you have a policy position you can't possibly forecast.

If you lose yourself to rage in the complexity of battle, you are going to be lost.

The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.

Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.

I cannot understand how something as ubiquitous as war can simply be dismissed as pathological. It is not clear to me that it is an unspeakable evil. If it is, I need proof of it.

We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

The warrior must continue to make decisions in the face of extreme circumstances. He cannot afford to get angry or frightened.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.

So as soon as you want something to happen you begin skewing the data to support it. Our stuff is invaluable to decision-makers precisely because we have no ax to grind.

Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.

Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning.

I had three goals and all of them were met.

This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.

Anyone will say anything under torture.

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf).

How sweet war is to such as know it not.

Sing lullabie, as women do,Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullabie can I sing to,As womanly as can the best.

Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,That every bullet hath a lighting place.

A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.

Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.

Every family should have at least three children. Then if one is a genius the other two can support him.

Activity and creativity almost always flow to the least regulated arena.

Entrepreneurship is the launching of surprises.

Capitalism begins with giving.

In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world’s most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.