I.B. George Quotes

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Reality is inside the skull.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.

There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

Tell people an invisible man in the sky created all things, they believe you. Tell them what you've painted is wet, they have to touch it to believe.

I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'

All I got to be is be happy.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.

The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

You fight like you train.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.

If only we could see the value of one soul like God does.

As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs.

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick.

God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.