I.B. George Quotes

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

The harder I work the more I live.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine.

I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

A Lannister always pays his debts.

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

See the music, hear the dance.