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The game is never lost till won.


George Crabbe

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DAVID PLEAT The game is not lost - or won - until the last bell goes.
JOHN CURTIN It's not that we lost. They won the game.
ANDY CAMERON It would have been better had we won the game but it was not his fault we lost. I am very happy with...
EDDIE O'SULLIVAN You never know what you have till you've lost it.
ALYSON NOEL There was never virgin got till virginity was first lost
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We felt we actually got things going in the right direction last week. We won the football game last...
DICK VERMEIL It might be great if you won. It's not the greatest game if you lost, ... You can say whatever you w...
CHARLIE WEIS I think we came out of the game feeling that Pitt lost rather than we won. We didn't really come out...
GENO AURIEMMA A WAR IS NEVER WON BY ANYBODY, IT ONLY DECIDES WHO LOST MORE !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS That's encouraging, ... but no solace. The bottom line is we lost this game and we should have won.
TIKI BARBER We lost a football game that I felt we should have won.
JOE HORN I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.
MARK VIDUKA I've never won a game without an offensive touchdown.
ADAM BEDNARIK That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
GEORGE FOREMAN They just beat us down the stretch. In the fourth quarter is where the game is won or lost. I though...
RAY ALLEN If we had lost this game the way I shot free throws, I would never have forgiven myself. When it's a...
RYAN HOLLINS I played a good game, but I'm happy because the team won. That's the most important. I played good l...
ANDRES NOCIONI His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe As left...
WILLIAM COWPER It is a lot easier to talk about a game after we have played well and won than when we've played wel...
MICK MCCARTHY A lost friendship is an enemy won.
PROVERB I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.
MUHAMMAD ALI I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
GEORGE FOREMAN The Cow knowes not what her taile is worth, till she have lost it.
GEORGE HERBERT We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.
MARYON PEARSON If I lost, so what. If I won, so what. My heart's not in it, but what else would I be doing?
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN We shared the title. But technically I guess you can say we won since they lost and we didn't lose a...
GREG OGLESBY I was never ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, once when I won one
VOLTAIRE At this point in the season, aesthetics doesn't mean a lot to me. We won the game a number of times ...
BILL FENNELLY Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The win gives (the players) confidence to know we can come from behind. It lets the team know the ga...
BEN WATSON We've been thinking about it ever since the final buzzer went off. We lost to Brentwood when we shou...
LANCE FEURTADO You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.
MUHAMMAD ALI I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
VOLTAIRE I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
VOLTAIRE Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost. Every good deed that's nobly done will always rep...
SOURCE UNKNOWN He made some good shots. It's just part of the game. I had some battles that I won and he had some b...
RON ARTEST Sometimes we say we won because of the cold air. But we never say we lost because of the cold air.
ALLIE PULLAR Knowing how she won the 2004 race and lost in a re-count by 22 votes; one never forgets the pain.
JENNIFER BLACK I never lost a game. I just ran our of time.
BOBBY LAYNE I've never lost a game I just ran out of time.
MICHAEL JORDAN An enterprise, when fairly once begun, should not be left till all that ought is won.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.
JIM COSTA We had the game won. It was a little frustrating.
ANDRUW JONES We won (a segment of the game) and they won, and we won and they won. And we won a little bit more.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI Now we're one-and-one. Last year was our first game in a new facility and we lost 3-2 in a game we f...
DAMON PETRAS It's been scientifically proven that at the end of a game more oxygen is being used to keep tired bo...
RASSIE ERASMUS We played well in the first half, but lost our composure in the second. We won the game, but we stil...
MARK ADAMS Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves,...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I felt we should have been able to win the game. I was disappointed that we lost. That's one I thoug...
ELAINE JONES We have to (play a complete game) soon. Games like this that we won, we come out of the locker room ...
KALANA GREENE Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
ROBERT JORDAN Cujo is the reason we won the game,
KRIS DRAPER Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
ALEXANDER POPE For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--...
GRANTLAND RICE For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes - not that you won or lost ...
GRANTLAND RICE I feel great we won this game. We lost our last six so I feel excellent and I feel happy. We played ...
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STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
VINCE LOMBARDI The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.
DALE EARNHARDT I played a good game, but I'm so happy because the team won. The last time I played well and we lost...
ANDRES NOCIONI There is a deep consensus between Gore and Bush, ... When you look at the last 10 years, there's not...
GEORGE FRIEDMAN There is a deep consensus between Gore and Bush. When you look at the last 10 years, there's not muc...
GEORGE FRIEDMAN The most important thing is that they won the game. And that's what I've always said about Wilt's 10...
AL ATTLES For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,
He writes -- not that you won or...
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DEYTH BANGER Races are won and lost in the pits,
DAVE ROSS Most games are lost, not won.
CASEY STENGEL Most games are lost, not won.
CASEY (CHARLES DILLON) STENGEL Won the war, lost the economy, lost the election. That's the mantra that haunts these people.
CHARLES VALLIERE Having some retail experience is key. It really is where the battle is won or lost.
JOSEPH ABBOUD I've never been to a game where Iowa's lost, ever. And that's 35 games.
COLLEEN SCHREIER John Kerry's position and my position are not very different about what we would do. Interestingly e...
HOWARD DEAN She was a true sportsman. She was courteous. If she lost, she would say, 'Good game. Thanks for play...
CATHY POOLE We've been used to kind of playing till the final game is over with.
RICHARD SEYMOUR That first game is important because you go two weeks till the next one.
CHARLES FREET The three matches we won we won easily and the two we lost were in three sets.
LEO SCODA We haven't created many turnovers and we've kind of lost the field position battle, but we're hangin...
MIKE HOLMGREN When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares ...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks-not that you won or...
GRANTLAND RICE We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
FRENCH PROVERB We lost a couple we should have won, but we won every close match.
DAVE EWING It was a very physical game. We may have lost our starting striker to injury. We could've won but we...
DOUG KILBY We have to get rid of that one bad inning. It has happened in every game we've lost, but we've also ...
JAY MARSTON Come, now again, thy woes impart, Tell all thy sorrows, all thy sin; We cannot heal the throbb...
GEORGE CRABBE Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good.
GEORGE CRABBE Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, d...
GEORGE CRABBE Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By win...
GEORGE CRABBE Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: ...
GEORGE CRABBE Cut and come again.
GEORGE CRABBE Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.
GEORGE CRABBE In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
GEORGE CRABBE To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains; ...
GEORGE CRABBE Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.
GEORGE CRABBE Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
GEORGE CRABBE The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.
GEORGE CRABBE "What is a church?"--Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.
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Come, now again, thy woes impart, Tell all thy sorrows, all thy sin; We cannot heal the throbb...
GEORGE CRABBE Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good.
GEORGE CRABBE Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, d...
GEORGE CRABBE Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By win...
GEORGE CRABBE Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: ...
GEORGE CRABBE Cut and come again.
GEORGE CRABBE Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.
GEORGE CRABBE In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
GEORGE CRABBE To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains; ...
GEORGE CRABBE Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.
GEORGE CRABBE Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
GEORGE CRABBE The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.
GEORGE CRABBE "What is a church?"--Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.
GEORGE CRABBE "What is a church?" Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, ...
GEORGE CRABBE Oh! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from th...
GEORGE CRABBE His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains, But neither feels nor fears ideal pains.
GEORGE CRABBE Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed...
GEORGE CRABBE Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash-- Tincture ...
GEORGE CRABBE From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; ...
GEORGE CRABBE The face the index of a feeling mind.
GEORGE CRABBE Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth."
GEORGE CRABBE But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.
GEORGE CRABBE Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule; Lucy saw...
GEORGE CRABBE To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
GEORGE CRABBE But monument themselves memorials need.
GEORGE CRABBE In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.
GEORGE CRABBE All green was vanished save of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Save t...
GEORGE CRABBE Feed the musician, and he's out of tune
GEORGE CRABBE A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
GEORGE CRABBE Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nat...
GEORGE CRABBE Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; ...
GEORGE CRABBE Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; A...
GEORGE CRABBE The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
GEORGE CRABBE Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain
GEORGE CRABBE The ring so worn, as you behold, / So thin, so pale, is yet of gold.
GEORGE CRABBE Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way
GEORGE CRABBE What is a church? - Our honest sexton tells, / 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.
GEORGE CRABBE Time has touched me gently in his race,/ And left no odious furrows in my face.
GEORGE CRABBE To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but a...
GEORGE CRABBE To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but a...
GEORGE CRABBE Oh! rather give me commentators plain, / Who with no deep researches vex the brain; / Who from the d...
GEORGE CRABBE And took for truth the test of ridicule.
GEORGE CRABBE To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
GEORGE CRABBE 'Twas good advice, and meant, "My son, be good."
GEORGE CRABBE Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We ...
GEORGE CRABBE With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich ...
GEORGE CRABBE Virtues neglected then, adored become,And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.
GEORGE CRABBE Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved
GEORGE CRABBE When the coarse cloth she saw, with many a stain, / Soiled by rude hands, who cut and came again.
GEORGE CRABBE A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but...
GEORGE CRABBE To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things...
GEORGE CRABBE A master-passion is the love of news.
GEORGE CRABBE With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man'...
GEORGE CRABBE To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all th...
GEORGE CRABBE She blocked well. We'll keep tinkering with our lineup. We might even move up a few players.
DAVID CRABBE It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
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GEORGE TAKEI 'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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GEORGE BURNS I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
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GEORGE BURNS Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al ...
GEORGE TENET In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
GEORGE CHAKIRIS The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. Th...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.
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GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'
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GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images ...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
GEORGE WALD Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated eco...
GEORGE AYITTEY Sanity is madness put to good use.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pay...
GEORGE GALLUP Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...
GEORGE SAND There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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GEORGE ORWELL War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
GEORGE ORWELL At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
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GEORGE ORWELL If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a cr...
GEORGE ORWELL When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
GEORGE ORWELL Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha...
GEORGE ORWELL Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
GEORGE ORWELL War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
GEORGE ORWELL Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
GEORGE ORWELL It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequentl...
GEORGE ORWELL The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
GEORGE ORWELL I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...
GEORGE ORWELL Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one...
GEORGE ORWELL War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...
GEORGE ORWELL Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay egg...
GEORGE ORWELL Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
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GEORGE ORWELL Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of al...
GEORGE ORWELL I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL