I.B. George Quotes

I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

What's dead may never die.

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

When words fail, the guitar speaks.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

The accurate measure of a human being is what he or she actually gets done.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

Though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.

Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.

Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.

I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

I don't panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I'm given to euphoria and despair. And I would say that I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.

Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

It is simply service that measures success.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.