I.B. George Quotes

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.

We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

Not to love is to cease to live.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly.

The business of books is the business of life.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.

Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.

Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

Lying, like license, has its degrees.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

Far away is far away only if you don't go there.

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

We are not made for law, we are made for love.

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.

See that you feel the truths that you speak.

The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.

The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.

Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The two elements interact with each other in a reflexive manner.

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.

I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .