I.B. George Quotes

Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers.

Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror.

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

Don't aim to plant churches. Aim to plant a church that will plant many other churches.

We'd rather have faithful Jews, Baptists or Buddhists than some of the Catholics who nearly run you over in the parking lot after Mass.

But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone.

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.

I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care.

The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.

Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block, which is to say that this is very good stuff, indeed.

I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium.

An airport carpet can tell you everything about its surroundings!

Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.

If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him

If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.

Success in solving the problem depends on choosing the right aspect, on attacking the fortress from its accessible side.

I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.

You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!

A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.

It made and preserves us a nation.

Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end.

The older we get and the longer we labor in the Church the more there is that we can do. There is no need for any person in this Church to have an empty hand or an empty heart.

The principle question before us is not, do we comprehend the atonement, but, do we accept it.

Nothing someone says before the word 'but' really counts.

I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.

I have been despised by better men than you.

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

As we sin, so do we suffer

A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion

When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.

Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.

The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.