W. L. George Quotes

I met my wife in South Dakota.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.

My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

As an American, I want our forces to prevail.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.

Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.

Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.

The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.

How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

O have a care of natures that are mute!

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.

For singing till his heaven fills, 'Tis love of earth that he instills, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which over flows To lift us with him as he goes.

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.

Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.

Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

I don't know what the universe is all about, but to me, nothing is gained by slapping a God sticker on it. It has never been a comfort to me to believe there's an all-seeing eye in the sky.

I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.

You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.

I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.

I had a bumper sticker on my car for a long time that said, "Kill your television." People helpfully pointed out that I was a total fraud because I was a television writer.

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!