I.B. George Quotes

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

A chiropractor accomplished in three weeks what the army doctors haven't been able to do in two years.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.

The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.

Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.

You can if you think you can.

Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.

Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.

True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.

Don't wonder whether you have a call to go. Have you had a distinct call from Christ to stay at home?

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.

Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.

The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem.

The history of a people are found in its songs.

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name will be glorified.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

Golf is like a chain. You always have to work on the weakest links.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.