W. L. George Quotes

As I said to Speedicut, it's hell in the diplomatic.

If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

Why should my love be powerless to help another?

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

Alas! how easily things go wrong!

It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

In times of horror and torment prayer is a great thing Nobody answers But at least it stops you from thinking.

We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that.

The Orkney imagination is haunted by time.

It doesn't matter in any game of rugby how many points the opposition scores, as long as we score more!

Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.

Character is the salesperson

That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.

Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.

The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its Propriety or Impropriety.

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.

I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.

We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day.

Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

I never even had the time to read novels.