I.B. George Quotes

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

The moon twangs its silver strings; The river swoons into town; The wind beds down in the pines, Covers itself with stars.

I think the lesson that I learnt very early on was to listen to people you work with, because you're all in it together.

While I was travelling and I kind of had the classic realisation - that I guess most teenagers have at some point - that time's gonna run out and that's not in my power to change that.

Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I'm a happy camper!

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.

It is only losers that are prosecuted.

For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere.

Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.

How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor.

Our God is a forgiving God.

The rigidity of those pledges is something I don’t like. The circumstances change and you can’t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. It’s—who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

Health can never be divorced from strength.

Man is a creature of light and air, and I should therefore recommend little or no clothing when training.

There's no telling what the score will be if this one goes in

Referee Norlinger is outstanding in the sense that he stands out.

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.

Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.