I.B. George Quotes

My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother

When I am alone in the forest at night-time and jump from one tree to another, I often think that life is so strange.

...methinks the older that one grows, Inclines us more to laugh the scold, though laughterLeaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

And yet methinks the older that one growsInclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughterLeaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

A sword needs a sheath, heh, and a wedding needs a bedding.

The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.

[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate’s mood.

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

Sports, Politics and Technology. All the same game.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man’s and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.

But an ordinary day can mark the beginning of an extraordinary journey!

Wolves and women wed for life.

All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned.

There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.

As you change your point of view, your views bring about a change in you.

Our surroundings fade and we exist in unison, two people who once shared cups of coffee, unprecedentedly ourselves in a changing world.

Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.

Still, beauty can mask deadly danger.

Beauty can be treacherous.

There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole —And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.

You should lead and serve by example without a title because people will and should remember you by and for your actions and accomplishments for doing good not by your title or positions.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership.

Artists are never appreciated at lunchtime, " Kelly mumbled as she stuffed her camera into her pocket.

Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime.

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.

Never interrupt someone who is reading because they’re no longer in your world.

Reading makes you impudent. Oh yes, unknown father, so it does.

Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

Nothing of importance happened today.

. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.

I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.

The earth has its music for those who will listen.

Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough.

Want for your brother, what you want for yourself.

One King means peace.

There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that’s watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain with no final solace.

But love and pain are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes that's how we know we're alive.