I.B. George Quotes

The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.

Good teams don't care about who scores. Good teams just care about scoring; they don't care who does it.

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought.

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.

When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.

Our food and our rest, our trades and our labors, are to be attended to, and all the offices of humanity performed in obedience to the will of God, for the glory of Christ.

For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.

I found by daily experience, the more I did, the more I might do for God.

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

It's not that it's so good with money, but that it's so bad without it.

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

I am not a Zionist, nor am I am a practicing Jew, but I have a great deal of sympathy for my fellow Jews and a deep concern for the survival of Israel.

Once you take care of people, people respect you.

The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day...needs to reorganize his life

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.

If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

I got to say hello to Snoop Dogg. I got to, I was being barged out of the way by his bodyguards but I got to say hello to him which was cool.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.