I.B. George Quotes
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.
It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.
The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.
Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.
The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.
When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.
Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.
Our enemies have made the mistake that America's enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat.
There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.
I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.
After a while, the cocaine - I didn't have any friends. I was just alone and I didn't even like myself.
I’m a Republican who embraces science and understands we have to work with the next generation of Millennials to have the innovation and technology so that we can grow a 21st century economy.
