I.B. George Quotes

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.

Every bubble has two components: something - some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

Know what you're talking about.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

It is always possible to create something original.

Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.

Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

In Hawaii they say, "aloha." That's a nice one, It means both "hello" and "good-bye" Which just goes to show, if you spend enough time in the sun you don't know whether you're coming or going.

Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?

Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish

Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.

I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today.

Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities.

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

I am never better than when I am on the full stretch for God.

To be kind neither hurts nor compromises.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.