I.B. George Quotes

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.

I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

Let us...once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable.

A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit.

No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.

My mother always said, 'When you're eating pretzels, chew before you swallow'. Always listen to your mother.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.