I.B. George Quotes

Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.

I've got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to do.

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

Where there is peace, God is.

The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.

You can't put this possum in a cage

Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified

Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!

Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room.

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.