I.B. George Quotes
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.
It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
Every person you look at, you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking
It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.
A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is
A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it
The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!"
Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.
The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.