George Foster Quotes

I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts ... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out. ~ George Foster

Our character was being forged on the anvil of the difficult experiences we were facing. We knew that if we remained committed to God's purposes for us, we would be prepared to face the future. ~ George Foster

Feelings are involuntary reactions, so God does not say, "Feel joy." He says, "Rejoice!" It's a choice. ~ George Foster

Joy is found in Jesus when we rejoice in Him. We can rejoice our way to joy! ~ George Foster

[George] Foster lacks the name recognition outside of Cincinnati that other members of the Big Red machine maintain, but that doesn't diminish his contributions to the club - he followed his MVP campaign with three more seasons of 20-plus home runs and 90-plus RBIs, never mind the fact he batted .326 during three trips to the World Series. And just like Rose and Morgan and Bench during their MVP seasons, Foster can say, if only for that one summer, he was the best in the game. ~ Tucker Elliot

Don't waste yer' breath kid. Explainin' anything to that one? It's like tryin' ta' slap the dumb off a retard ... -George Foster ~ Shawn Durnin

God loves you just as you are, but He loves you too much to leave you just as you are. ~ George Foster

Worry is common, it's not good for us, it accomplishes little, and it dishonors the God who cares for us. Worry may be our most enduring form of unbelief. ~ George Foster

Christians know that joy is more than a feeling or an on-again, off-again sentiment that changes according to the circumstances they face. Followers of Jesus Christ distinguish between lasting joy and situational happiness. Fun and joy are not necessarily synonymous. We believe we can experience inner joy with no special external stimulus to make us happy. ~ George Foster

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever! ~ George C. Wallace

I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that's what's sort of exciting about it. ~ Inara George

If you ask me, it's all that schooling. It takes the fun out of life, being cooped up like that day after day ... Books, now that's different. There's nothing like a book to keep you company of a long voyage. ~ Elizabeth George Speare

Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality. ~ George Washington

Is there anything more beautiful than gold?" - Freya's question.

Plain-thoughted Thor spoke. "A farm at first light
Is more beautiful than gold, or
A ship's sails in the mist.
Many ordinary things are far more beautiful. ~ George Webbe Dasent

The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe. ~ George Soros

A woman mixed of such fine elements
That were all virtue and religion dead
She'd make them newly, being what she was. ~ George Eliot

Kings are supposed to put the realm before their sisters. ~ George R R Martin

Cersei stumbles from one idiocy to the next, helped along by her council of the deaf, the dim and the blind. ~ George Martin

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence. ~ George Orwell

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly. ~ Ben Bernanke

Let us ... once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable. ~ George Whitefield

I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.' ~ George R R Martin

Health and mony goe farre.
[Health and money go far.] ~ George Herbert

If the fact that brutes abstract not be made the distinguishing property of that sort of animal, I fear a great many of those that pass for men must be reckoned into their number. ~ George Berkeley

The mind has no sex ... ~ George Sand

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Let's face it: Bush is just dim. ~ George Clooney

The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people. ~ George Lucas

I'm the luckiest writer on earth. ~ George Michael

I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service. ~ George Mason

I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen. ~ David Foster Wallace

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ... ~ George Eliot

The argument that personal moral views should not be imposed on others when it comes to lawmaking is incoherent and misleading. It is incoherent because a great deal of law implicitly "imposes" a particular moral view on the wider society. It would be disingenuous to pretend that the legalization of abortion on demand or euthanasia does not impose a certain moral view on the rest of society. This is especially true when arguments for abortion and euthanasia are based on rights. The appeal to rights is a moral argument, and it is this appeal to moral authority that gives force to laws enshrining rights. ~ George Cardinal Pell

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest? ~ George R R Martin

I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to those worst dreams' form itself: the sudden intra-dream realization that the nightmares' very essence and center has been with you all along, even awake: it's just been ... overlooked; and then that horrific interval between realizing what you've overlooked and turning your head to look back at what's been right there all along, the whole time ... ~ David Foster Wallace

If drumsticks are for playing drums, you would think that breadsticks would be for playing bread, wouldn't you? "Would you like some breadsticks?" "No, thank you, I don't play bread. I play drums. Perhaps I'll have a drum roll." ~ George Carlin

O'er hill and field October's glories fade;
O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly;
The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade,
Where naked branches make a fitful shade,
And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie. ~ George Arnold

I did not come here to eat fruit. Stannis was fuming. ~ George R R Martin

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. ~ George Peele

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle. ~ George E. Brown, Jr.

'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays. ~ George Farquhar

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support. ~ George Washington

I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness. ~ George Allen

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny. ~ George Arnold

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. ~ George Santayana

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last. ~ George Bernard Shaw

She always administered her charity with some view to the value of the probable return, - with some regard, that is, to the amount of good likely to result to others from the aid given to one. She always took into consideration whether the good was likely to be propagated, or to die with the receiver. She confessed to frequent mistakes; but such, she said, was the principle upon which she sought to regulate that part of her stewardship. ~ George MacDonald

I can see the war that's coming and I can see the after-war, the food-queues and the secret police and the loudspeakers telling you what to think. ~ George Orwell

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones? ~ George R R Martin