I.B. George Quotes
The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
When we are filled with the Spirit of God, we are filled with joy, with peace and with happiness no matter what our circumstances may be; for it is a spirit of cheerfulness and of happiness.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and guide this day and forever for His sake, who lay down in the grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.
Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established
Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.
You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.
Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.
In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.
The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'
Give me love Give me love Give me peace on earth Give me light Give me life Keep me free from birth Give me hope Help me cope, with this heavy load Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul
People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.
I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.