I.B. George Quotes

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

The Democrats in particular are do-nothing guys.

My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.

Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will'.

If it feels right, do it. If it feels wrong, don't.

Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.

What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story.

Everybody has a finite amount of energy and limits to what he or she can do. Listen to your body. It will talk to you if you're willing to listen.

I really wanna lose three pounds.

Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute.

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

Subsidize... or lend.

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

Markets cant think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.

Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.

Homo-voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

"despair all ye mortals," he said in a voice of doom. "the mama approacheth"

Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?Is all good structure in a winding stair?

Man is no star, but a quick coalOf mortal fire:Who blows it not, nor doth controlA faint desire,