W. L. George Quotes

I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.'

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.

Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn't do anything unless you do it right.

There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have.

I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab.

You may think that those aeroplanes in this city on 9/11 came out of a clear, blue sky. I believe they emerged out of a swamp of hatred created by us.

The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger.

Full many wanton babes have I, Which must be stilled with lullaby.

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated.

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

No woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.