I.B. George Quotes

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.

Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

The secret of success is doing something you love, doing it well and being recognized for it

Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.

A crooked log makes a strait fire.

No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff.

God... God...dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God...

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.

I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.

Movies are about escape.

The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.

Life is a series of dogs.

He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.

The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.

Nothings ever real until its real.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.