George Gittoes Quotes

#1. Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity. #Quote by George Darley

#2. Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs. #Quote by George Papandreou

#3. The weight of armor and shield will tire even the strongest man. #Quote by George R R Martin

#4. Our struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown. Although it often seems that way. #Quote by Edward Kennedy

#5. Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid. #Quote by George Santayana

#6. God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey. #Quote by Margot Kidder

#7. There is no doubt that the countries that now have a very large debt have not introduced the kind of structural reforms that Germany did and are therefore at a disadvantage. But the problem is that this disadvantage is becoming even more pronounced through the punitive policies in place. #Quote by George Soros

#8. We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean
the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims. #Quote by George Pope Morris

#9. Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed to be logical. They assume all you have to do is tell people the facts and they will reason to the right conclusion. This is utterly ridiculous. Thought is mainly metaphorical. The frames trump all the facts. #Quote by George Lakoff

#10. Like Humpty Dumpty, in the old nursery rhyme, putting the country back together again would not be easy. This feeling of separation and alienation was not a passing thought but lived into the next century. #Quote by George Levy

#11. Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#12. That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct. #Quote by George Mason

#13. Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#14. Give loosers leave to talke. #Quote by George Herbert

#15. I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more. #Quote by George Clooney

#16. Great advertising, in and of itself, becomes a benefit of the product. #Quote by George Lois

#17. Good luck can be enticed by accepting opportunity. #Quote by George S. Clason

#18. It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man. #Quote by George Crook

#19. A mad man sees what he sees. #Quote by George R R Martin

#20. Reading Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge's brilliant and depressing book, "The Thirties", I thought of a rather cruel trick I once played on a wasp. He was sucking jam on my plate, and I cut him in half. Hr paid no attention, merely went on with his meal, while a tiny stream of jam tricked out of his oesophagus. Only when he tried to fly away did he grasp the dreadful thing that had happened to him. It is the same with modern man. The thing that has been cut away is his soul, and there was a period - twenty years, perhaps - during which he did not notice it. #Quote by George Orwell

#21. Time and Space are not prior to creation, they are forms under which creation becomes thinkable. #Quote by George Santayana

#22. What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death. #Quote by George Pierce Baker

#23. Given the central position that the Morality of Reward and Punishment has in the conservative moral system, it is no surprise that conservatives in most cases prefer retribution over restitution as a form of justice, as a way of balancing the moral books. It is therefore no surprise that conservatives are in favor of the death penalty. It is a form of retribution, a life for a life. Liberals, #Quote by George Lakoff

#24. I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one. #Quote by George W. Bush

#25. Jaime," she said, tugging on his ear, "sweetling, I have known you since you were a babe at Joanna's breast. You smile like Gerion and fight like Tyg, and there's some of Kevan in you, else you would not wear that cloak ... but Tyrion is Tywin's son, not you. #Quote by George R R Martin

#26. The animals' blood boiled with rage when they heard of these things being done to their comrades, and sometimes they clamoured to be allowed to go out in a body and attack Pinchfield Farm, drive out the humans, and set the animals free. But Squealer counselled them to avoid rash actions and trust in Comrade Napoleon's strategy. #Quote by George Orwell

#27. The time to speak of the cold is not when we are standing put in it. #Quote by George R R Martin

#28. Treason ... is only a word. When two princes fight for a chair where only one may sit, great lords and common men alike must choose. And when the battle's done, the victors will be hailed as loyal men and true, whilst those who were defeated will be known forevermore as rebels and traitors. That was my fate. #Quote by George R R Martin

#29. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. #Quote by George Eliot

#30. whom the god loves dies young #Quote by George Gordon Byron

#31. The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider! #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#32. The only city people are those born so. #Quote by George Ade

#33. Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended. #Quote by George Herbert

#34. Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise! #Quote by George Ade

#35. Once an athlete feels his coach does not believe in him resentment develops and everyone loses at that point. #Quote by George M. Gilbert

#36. The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to. #Quote by George Papandreou

#37. Ah, let a man beware, when his wishes, fulfilled, rain down upon him, and his happiness is unbounded. #Quote by George MacDonald

#38. Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. #Quote by George Washington

#39. Good stewardship of the environment is not just a personal responsibility, it is a public value ... Our duty is to use the land well, and sometimes not to use it at all. This is our responsibility as citizens, but more than that, it is our calling as stewards of the earth. #Quote by George W. Bush

#40. Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad. #Quote by George Washington

#41. When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically ... but that does not justify him in pretending ... that Christ is, in effect, Mars. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#42. Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement. #Quote by George Burton Adams

#43. But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state. #Quote by George Smathers

#44. This invasion of one's mind by ready-made phrases (lay the foundations, achieve a radical transformation) can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against then, and every such phrase anesthetizes a portion of one's brain. #Quote by George Orwell

#45. There are no happy endings. #Quote by George R R Martin

#46. Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw