George Pim Quotes

He was a hearty, gregarious man. He was rich, but newly rich, and so very sincere about it. He lacked the natural languidity that came with old money, the kind that made others feel like they were only walking through dreams of the wealthy, barely there at all. People couldn't help but like George. His laugh was like a barrel of whiskey. His cheeks were almost as red as his hair. Just looking at him, you could see that his capacity to love was as wide as the world. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it. ~ George MacDonald

It's shrinkage! Hasn't she heard of shrinkage? -George Costanza, Seinfeld ~ Genna Rulon

The role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place. ~ George W. Bush

I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing. ~ George P. Shultz

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. ~ George Eliot

What a welcome change to feel like someone is running the country instead of running it into the ground. President Obama has done more in eight weeks than George W. Bush did in eight years
unless you include starting a couple of wars. ~ Jack Cafferty

An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth. ~ George Soros

There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by. ~ George VI

I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world. ~ George Voinovich

She smells the way a mermaid ought to smell. She smells of the sea. ~ George R R Martin

Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony; or John Milton when his blindness had come on; or any of the other great men whose odd habits it would have been glorious piety to endure; but an amiable handsome baronet, who said "Exactly" to her remarks even when she expressed uncertainty,
how could he affect her as a lover? The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it. ~ George Eliot

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years. ~ George Wald

I need to confront my loss, not run away from it. I wanted to wade in with my eyes open and all my senses alert. I wanted to register everything, from the giant waves of sorrow to the inkiest ripples of remorse. I didn't want to miss any of it. ~ Alex George

I remember love vaguely, I think I can recall what it was like, and I remember that it never lasts. ~ George R R Martin

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home. ~ Gary Kemp

To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool). ~ George Herbert

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks. ~ George W. Bush

We pretend to catch and eat more pretend bugs than could ever actually live in one cave. The number of pretend bugs we pretend to catch and eat would in reality basically fill a cave the size of our cave. ~ George Saunders

When the end comes, I will meet it raging. ~ George R R Martin

These aren't the 'droids you're looking for," Kenobi told him pleasantly. "These aren't the 'droids we're looking for. ~ George Lucas

I'm very fond of you, Maggie; I shall never forget you," said Philip, "and when I'm very unhappy, I shall always think of you, and wish I had a sister with dark eyes, just like yours. ~ George Eliot

I'm not going out to parties every night. ~ George Osborne

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. ~ George Eliot

If we leave the European Union it's a risk to our economy - it's a risk to pensioners, it's a risk to homeowners, it's a risk to people in work. ~ George Osborne

Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world. ~ George Catlin

George Bush created lots of jobs. ~ Michael Steele

Of all types of human being, only the artist takes it upon him to say that he "cannot" work. ~ George Orwell

Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death! ~ George MacDonald

My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them. ~ George Soros

..dreams might mean anything or nothing ~ George R.R. Martin

She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye. ~ George R R Martin

Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle. ~ George S. Patton

At times, they're so Right and I'm so Left, we agree. ~ George Saunders

Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character. ~ Jim George

To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary. ~ George Herbert

It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity ... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods. ~ George Santayana

Ships feare fire more then water.
[Ships fear fire more than water.] ~ George Herbert

The resolution approved today presents the Iraqi regime with a test - a final test. ~ George W. Bush

The truly wise talk little about religion and are not given to taking sides on doctrinal issues. When they hear people advocating or opposing the claims of this or that party in the church, they turn away with a smile such as men yield to the talk of children. They have no time, they would say, for that kind of thing. They have enough to do in trying to faithfully practice what is beyond dispute. ~ George MacDonald

I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell, in his second novel, A Clergyman's Daughter , published in 1935, had borrowed from Joyce for his nighttime scene in Trafalgar Square, where Deafie and Charlie and Snouter and Mr. Tallboys and The Kike and Mrs. Bendigo and the rest of the bums and losers keep up a barrage of song snatches, fractured prayers, curses, and crackpot reminiscences. But only on my most recent reading of Ulysses did I discover, in the middle of the long and intricate mock-Shakespeare scene at the National Library, the line 'Go to! You spent most of it in Georgina Johnson's bed, clergyman's daughter.' So now I think Orwell quarried his title from there, too. ~ Christopher Hitchens

I have not been thy dupe, nor am thy prey
But was my own destroyer, and will be
My own hereafter. ~ Lord Byron

The Oval Office is a place where there's been, obviously, a lot of amazing experiences over a seven-and-a-half year period. My presidency is one where I've had to make some very tough decisions. I guess some presidencies are kind of - were real smooth, there were no real big issues. Well, that's not the way mine is. ~ George W. Bush

Just as I am watching a tongue of blue flame rising in the fire, and my lamp is burning low, the horrible contraction will begin in my chest. I shall only have time to reach the bell, and pull it violently, before the sense of suffocation will come. No one will answer my bell. I know why. My two servants are lovers, and will have quarrelled. My housekeeper will have rushed out of the house in a fury, two hours before, hoping that Perry will believe she has gone to drown herself. Perry is alarmed at last, and is gone out after her. The little scullery-maid is asleep on a bench: she never answers the bell; it does not wake her. The sense of suffocation increases: my lamp goes out with a horrible stench: I make a great effort, and snatch at the bell again. I long for life, and there is no help. I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. 0 God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it. I am content. Agony of pain and suffocation - and all the while the earth, the fields, the pebbly brook at the bottom of the rookery, the fresh scent after the rain, the light of the morning through my chamber window, the warmth of the hearth after the frosty air - will darkness close over them for ever?

Darkness-darkness-no pain-nothing but darkness: but I am passing on and on through the darkness: my thought stays in the darkness, but always with a sense of moving onward ... ("The Lifted Veil") ~ George Eliot

We must not inquire too curiously into motives,' he interposed, in his measured way. 'Miss Brooke knows that they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. ~ George Eliot

On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power. ~ George Will

How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it! ~ George Elliston