I.B. George Quotes

The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.

It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.

Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.

Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.

I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.

I suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally.

I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.

I was at Live Aid the original, looking like Rolf Harris for some reason. I had a really long beard that day for some reason.

Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

My genius from a boy Has fluttered like a bird within my heart; But could not thus confined her power employ, Impatient to depart.

The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King.

I wonder if Chupacabras are... baby Mothmen?

The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.

I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.

The more intelligent, the less sane

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.