I.B. George Quotes

The choreographer and the dancer must remember
that they reach the audience through the eye.
It's the illusion created which convinces the audience,
much as it is with the work of a magician.

The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.

I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem.

When I was in Vegas women were throwing their hotel keys at me. But it was after they checked out.

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.

God can, has and will use anybody who is open to serving Him to convey the gospel. He will bless the efforts of His servants whether they are gifted as evangelizers or not.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.

The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.

You know nothing, Jon Snow

The United States of America stands for: the ability for people to worship freely, the ability for people to vote and to express their opinion freely is something we hold dear.

Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real, for a moment at least, that long magic moment before we wake.

If you're gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.

The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.

They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.

O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee : I give Thee back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Living well is the best revenge.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

You've learned the lessons well. You first learned to live on less than you earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who are competent. Lastly, you've learned to make gold work for you.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity