I.B. George Quotes

The Qu'ran is God's song, not ours, not even Muhammad's. To allow such a song to pass through one's body, however imperfectly, is to discover that the instrument is transformed by the music.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

I awoke one morning to find myself famous.

The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.

I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time.

Are you real?” Stupid. Of course he’s real.“Yes, Julie. I’m not the mystical man from your dreams.

his mother, who had never been able to manage him, sent him to school to get rid of him, lamented his absence till he returned, then writhed and fretted under his presence until again he went.

Just be happy that it is what it is and not what it could be because after all, it could always be worse

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom

If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.

As a breath on glass, -As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return.(“The Face of the Skies”)

O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity!Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life!(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

The pathway traced with blood and tears, and dust of all our father's dead, Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red, Fade to the mist of nameless years.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled, The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.("Ephemera")

Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.''Girls don't shave', Arya said.'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts, " he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.

The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space.

What right do we have to dream of another world, if we can't take care of this one.

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

If a boy can manage to have coffee with me during the apocalypse, I know he cares. There’s not a speck of doubt in my mind. He must care.

After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave, ' his father told him.

The truth Fear tells is not much better than her lies.

Yes, ” I whisper so the others won’t hear, “but being afraid is good because it means I still have more to lose.

Change your ways when fear seizes, " he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong.

Any man who loves a woman as she deserves to be loved is a magician.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

Friendship is love without wings.

We need more inclusion, partnerships over partisanships in politics to solve man-made problems to be better off and in order to change the world

Saints preserve us, ' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?

We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.

...you never knows where a spark may drop and a fire begin to run.

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception.

On armageddon day, ' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong.

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.

Some dreams, some poems, some musical phrases, some pictures, wake feelings such as one never had before, new in colour and form—spiritual sensations, as it were, hitherto unproved

Every boy dreams of serving in the Kingsguard.

Dreams can lie, your Grace.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the other who would drag us all into the eternal light

Dreams turn to dust in light of day.

Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

Oh, merciless freedom, you continue to overwhelm me! You demand that I challenge myself and feel ashamed, and yet continue to feel so outrageously proud to live a life full of my desires.