I.B. George Quotes

The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Discipline is the soul of an army.

We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts

In case of doubt, attack.

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

God almost never calls His people to a fair fight.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.

I live to hold communion With all that is divine, To feel there is a union Twixt Natures heart and mine.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

They say Paul Gascoigne is the new George Best but has he shagged three Miss Worlds?

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

Bigfoot may well be an extraterrestrial, because... remember Chewbacca?

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.

If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

LIBERTY, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.