I.B. George Quotes

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again, and keep smiling.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

When we acknowledge God's supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

The absolute goal of vision for ministry is to glorify God.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.

The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.

I want to do something big, something important.

Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.

It's mass confusion. I'm guessing on every shot. About the only thing left for me is acupuncture in the brain.

February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]

I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

Hitler produced a local "lab experiment"; he provided me with an ideology in the same way that Marx provided one for Lenin. My task is to turn this ideology into a world movement.

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

One only hope my heart can cheer, - The hope to meet again.

We are now the proud owners of a white boy. Now we have to shop in the caucasian isle and get sunscreen, mayonaise and mild salsa because the other ones really hawt!

I can never do nothing in this house!

You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.

We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid.

I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

Faith is obedience, not compliance.

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy

I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.