I.B. George Quotes

Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Sometimes indifference can be so erotic. I think the people who are most dismissive of you get the most of your attention.

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.

The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

There was something irresistible about popcorn.

Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet.

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

Losers never know why they are losing. They will mention injuries, the officiating, the weather and bad breaks.

It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.

Prettiness dies first.

Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization.

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

Education is... doing anything that changes you.

Practice is the path of mastery.

Tied one on last night. Not feeling great this morning. I was trying to sleep it off, unfortunately, it was on the casino floor.

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

In my films, all the great things are put together. It's not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.

To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.

He climbs highest who helps another up.

I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.