I.B. George Quotes

I think if you truly believe that something should be that way then you should push for that.

Give me one good reason why I should never make a change, baby if you hold me then all of this will go away.

For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.

A good digestion turneth all to health.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

There is no heaven like mutual love.

No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA.

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

My administration has a job to do and we're going to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers.

Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence.

Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.

If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.

The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good.

A man must know his destiny.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.

I don't want to be a queen. I want to be the queen.

We look up at the same stars and see such different things." - Jon Snow

As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in Texas, Therefore I reside in Tennessee

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.

I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.