I.B. George Quotes

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.

Never let making a profit stand in the way of doing the right thing.

My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.

I believe the reason many Christians are so dull and lifeless in their faith is because they are not in the battle, not using their weapons, not advancing against the enemy.

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

It's a slam-dunk case!

You were made to be kissed, often and well.

Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.

I need someone like me.

When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.

You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause.

I am tired in the Lord's work, but not tired of it.

Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.

O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.

Open your hearts as wide as ever you will, the Spirit of the Lord shall fill them.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.

The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

In the corporate world, sometimes things aren't exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.

I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a fool, which you've probably worked out by now.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances.