I.B. George Quotes

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

When there is no vision, there is no hope.

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

Keep out of your mind, and out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite, helpful, useful end in view.

There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.

This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward.

If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.

Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

My people are Americans. My time is today.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ; When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:– And the man who dares to tell the truth, Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

Music is the brandy of the damned.

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

A crazy person doesn't really lose his mind. It just becomes something more entertaining.

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.