I.B. George Quotes

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Because there are 7 billion 47 million people on the planet And I have the audacity to think I matter I know it's a lie but I prefer it to the alternative

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated. If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded.

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

May the Force be with you.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

I can't tell if I'm a good person or I'm faking really well

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!

Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--

It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.

They will never count me among the broken men.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.