I.B. George Quotes

The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.

But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

Property is organized robbery.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon till all the valuable parts be extracted.

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!

Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

...I deeply believe that there is a power greater than ours that's helping us in our fight.

Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

Obedience is the key to every door.

There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.

The holy spirit of the Spring Is working silently.

Light-leaved acacias, by the door, Stood up in balmy air, Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore, And breathed a perfume rare.

When the will is given, the battle is ended.

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.

I'd never touch anything. I think it's foolhardy to play around with the face that you've been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene.

I also think I could probably repeat the commercial success; whether I want to or not is a different matter. I think there is still better work inside me.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.

I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.