I.B. George Quotes

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

I am emboldened, not cowed, by the words and actions of Trump and his circle. I believe many others are as well. Together we will stand in opposition. I'm not going anywhere, and I won't be silenced.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

I'm a religious person. I honestly believe we will see each other in heaven someday.

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

All this talkin' about eatin' is makin' me awful hungry. I'll have two chili burgers with an order of fries, onion rings and a chocolate milk shake. And a Strawberry Ice Cream Sundae-with pickles.

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

We're Mexi-cans not Mexi-can'ts.

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

Although believers by nature are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

President George W. Bush is endangering the United States and the world's safety while undermining American values.

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.

As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.

America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.

Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected

Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

[My family] is one of the strongest families you're ever likely to see.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

"You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others.

Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate.

A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.

Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?