We have forged a working partnership with the federal government in responding to floods, blizzards and wildfires, ... I believe that partnership should be extended to include the extraordinary circumstances of this catastrophe.


George Pataki

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Ontario has heard them and we have acted. Now it's time to focus on the federal government (and) mak...
LEONA DOMBROWSKY
This kind of major public works project has to be a state and federal partnership.
ANDY KOPPLIN
As a result of this activity, we have decided to restructure the Road Runner partnership and we have...
GERALD LEVIN
People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and d...
JOHN HOLDREN
I believe that this meeting, its ambiance, its friendship, its sense of partnership has created thos...
TONY BLAIR
This sale brings the excellent partnership that we have enjoyed with Marriott International to a clo...
ALAN PARKER
We now have a chance to create a genuine partnership between unionists and nationalists in a novel f...
DAVID TRIMBLE
We're delighted to be working with Devon County Council in what we're sure will be the start of a be...
DAVID HURLEY
We know this is going to be the beginning of a long and fruitful partnership with General Motors.
CURTIS MYLES
What could be the utopia for the present age?

To begin with, I would want all of human or...
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-y...
CHARLES VEST
The relationship between a man & his wife should never be that of head & tail or master & servant,bu...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
We are delighted to have formed a greater working partnership with a local company who enjoy signifi...
IAN BISHOP
Through our partnership with government, industry and community organizations, we want to make a las...
OLIVER ROLL
It used to be contentious, and now we see working with our contractors as a partnership. We've had m...
BILL SCOTT
I characterize it as a continued weakening of the partnership between the federal government and the...
IRIS LAV
Partnership working, clear priorities and the adoption of innovative approaches by the Safer Bristol...
GARY HOPKINS
We have previously worked with Global Payments to serve a number of customers, including prominent c...
JEFF THORNESS
As much as I believe in the Franco-German partnership, I question the idea of a duopoly. European co...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
Society is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and...
EDMUND BURKE
The industry has seen repeats of the significant impacts of risk, There will be a consideration from...
BRIAN CASEY
We are delighted to have entered into this partnership with Polo Ralph Lauren.
IAN RITCHIE
It's a plan that has a lot of substance to it with respect to the establishment of a partnership bet...
DOUG FORRESTER
This is a partnership where we're working deeply with Cisco, and the deal will be particularly impor...
BEN HOROWITZ
This opening shows that we are headed in the right direction. This is a testament to the hard work o...
HUSSEIN JABOR
We are delighted to be working in collaboration with Endeavor. This partnership represents a signifi...
LEE COX
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partne...
EDMUND BURKE
The CHI PACC program is an example of a successful federal-state partnership that can have an immedi...
WAYNE ALLARD
I am so honored to have the City recognize us in this exciting partnership. It is especially rewardi...
JOHN SHEGERIAN
Our forces are able to go on the offensive, working in partnership with the Afghan national security...
KARL EIKENBERRY
We look forward to the results from our expanded partnership with NEC. Japan is one of the world's l...
MASANORI OSUGA
We all share the same environment. Working together through this partnership, the United States can ...
BILL WEHRUM
We are looking forward to working in partnership with World Airwaves to develop innovative IPv6-base...
ALEX LIGHTMAN
This initiative holds great promise for expanding the use of online education for students and educa...
JAMEY FITZPATRICK
I think it's a great example of a public-private partnership. I really wish the government entities ...
LARRY MEDINA
Mansion will invest money in the English Premier League as we believe it will be a powerful tool to ...
DAVID KINSMAN
I helped out and some of the students helped. That?s why I think this partnership was meant to be.
MAGGIE GRIDLEY
We need to get some leverage from the federal government. There's a lot that can be done, and I beli...
AL WEED
We believe this commitment to education is a win-win. It helps students and parents pay for college,...
DIANE MORAIS
This is a significant win for us and it cements our position as a pre-eminent supplier of property m...
DON SMITH
We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater ...
DOUG MACGREGOR
There's a significant lack of equivalents in relation to civil partnership and partnership rights fo...
NIALL CROWLEY
In American history, this is the most outrageous giveaway ever extended by the federal government to...
BARMAK NASSIRIAN
We've been working in a Palm/Treo partnership for a while.
JIM BALSILLIE
This is a great partnership between the state, local government and an outstanding corporate citizen...
CRAIG LESSER
I have spent the last month talking with Bryan and I feel we will make a great coaching partnership....
MARK MORRISON
We do a lot in partnership with the W-2 program, teaching classes that help meet the requirements fo...
LANA ANDERSON
The MPAA views this partnership with Internet2 as an important opportunity for collaboration as we s...
DAN GLICKMAN
We look forward to continuing the partnership with the Cleveland Clinic and we will have discussions...
STEVEN CAMPANINI
Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
We have never had this before. This is a new partnership strategy.
WAYNE AYER
It's really with the Legion now, to obtain 66 per cent of the funding from provincial and federal so...
MARK TAYLOR
From this regional partnership, we will again provide athletes the environment to be the best.
PETER DUNBAR
No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while co...
ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
We're in this together. This has got to be a public-private partnership. We can't do it by ourselves...
LINTON WELLS II
We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked ...
JAMES IHA
No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
We look forward to this partnership, to get to the bottom of, to resolve this scandal,
BERNARD PARKS
We bought this farm in 1955 as part of a partnership my father and three brothers had. That lasted u...
HAYES HARBOUR
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
We see this as a significant partnership.
CARRIE LEWIS
We plan to build Japan's biggest auction business. We believe we can build a very strong partnership...
HIROSHI MIKITANI
The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. ...
MARK ZUCKERBERG
I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that th...
DELPHINE ARNAULT
This is truly a unique partnership between private enterprise, non-profit organizations and governme...
PAUL ANDREWS
I don’t know how we can go into a partnership with them when we don’t have the information,
GREG MILLER
The Board of Governors fully recognizes the role of the Legislature in providing education for the c...
CAROLYN ROBERTS
I look forward to a wonderful partnership with Sundance.
KAZ MANIWA
I'd like to see a working partnership between people your age and people my age,
GEORGE MCGOVERN
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of pr...
PRATIBHA PATIL
We knew going into this meeting that we were not going to walk away with a check from the federal go...
ZOE LOFGREN
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognisin...
VINCE CABLE
There's a number of partnership opportunities. We have a long-standing relationship with the Leavenw...
LYNN MCCLURE
I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary e...
DR. CARL SAGAN
Everything that we do in this partnership will first be executed in this store. It will be a way for...
ERICH STAMMINGER
The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER
While we have worked with all three organizations on separate projects in the past, this new opportu...
PAUL TAGLIABUE
A lot of the activity is happening at home and we are really relying on a partnership with parents t...
DEBORAH CALDWELL
I am very much in favor of our partnership with the university.
ERIC FUNK
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continen...
FATOS NANO
CBS is very pleased to have forged this partnership with Mitsubishi that will give American televisi...
LESLIE MOONVES
It really takes a partnership to be able to do something like this.
LAURIE SAPP
We at Texas A&M University-Commerce are delighted to work in partnership with Paris Junior College o...
JAMES CONRAD
Our partnership with Thomson will allow us to bring Sirius' programming to more people through new a...
BOB LAW
Our plans were well thought through. I believe the dialogue we had with the fans have provided the b...
ED HORNE
This has to be a partnership, because ultimately the communities are entitled to take responsibility...
DAVID PAULISON
The idea came about through our partnership [with China Daily] in China, where teaching and learning...
STEVEN SCHWARTZ
We are starting on a journey that unlocks multi-billion dollar potential in this partnership.
MIKE CAVE
We are now working with the Federal Property Ministry, Finance Ministry, and the government apparatu...
ANDREI KOSTIN
We believe the current zoning is out of character with the rest of the neighborhoods around it. Ther...
GREG RIEGLE
We thought this would be a really neat way to celebrate our partnership and acknowledge an art dedic...
CHERYL PALMER
I don’t know how we can go into a partnership with them when we don’t have the information,
GREG MILLER
Just as teenagers can live in the same house as their parents, yet choose not to live “close” to...
THERESA DEDMON
This partnership deepens our relationship with a sports league that continues to soar in global popu...
ERICH STAMMINGER
We are thrilled to welcome Bob and George to the team and I believe that the contributions to our bu...
BERNARD BAILEY
We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But,...
NARENDRA MODI
When you listen to this new amazing album and see their current live show, it's clear that Korn are ...
DAVID MUNNS

More George Pataki

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for the...
GEORGE PATAKI
On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.
GEORGE PATAKI
This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about i...
GEORGE PATAKI
The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effor...
GEORGE PATAKI
What I did in New York was bring people together, an overwhelmingly Democratic state. But I was able...
GEORGE PATAKI
Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinar...
GEORGE PATAKI
After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation...
GEORGE PATAKI
There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, child...
GEORGE PATAKI
Cigarette smoking has an enormous negative impact on people's health, and it drives up the cost of h...
GEORGE PATAKI
My view has always been and I believe it's the law in New York state, that marriage in New York is b...
GEORGE PATAKI
This is a man who doesn't need to have a script to tell him what New York needs. This is a man who d...
GEORGE PATAKI
What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its in...
GEORGE PATAKI
Time will never dull the grief of those who lost their loved ones on that tragic day, nor will it di...
GEORGE PATAKI
There's a reason why it's illegal for public employees to strike in New York. It doesn't just negati...
GEORGE PATAKI
They have broken the trust of the people of New York. They have not only endangered our city and sta...
GEORGE PATAKI
I think it's a very fair proposal. I think this is one of those rare occasions where everyone can cl...
GEORGE PATAKI
When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took of...
GEORGE PATAKI
Every single allegation in this suit is provable with a paper trail a mile wide and a foot deep,
GEORGE PATAKI
Mrs. Clinton, just as I said to Mario Cuomo -- you can't do it, but I can,
GEORGE PATAKI
Religious liberty doesn't include encouraging a fellow American to engage in violent jihad and k...
GEORGE PATAKI
The sea behind me has claimed a piece of your hearts and a lifetime of your tears. Something in your...
GEORGE PATAKI
This is another positive step in the resurgence of lower Manhattan.
GEORGE PATAKI
I don't care what the union says until they come back to work.
GEORGE PATAKI
I'm here helping Doug Forrester become the next governor of New Jersey,
GEORGE PATAKI
This is not a theoretical proposal destined for the archives of state government. This will be carri...
GEORGE PATAKI
This is great news for the Hudson Valley commuters that rely on the Metro-North Railroad, ... The ne...
GEORGE PATAKI
We will both be working with our federal governments to make sure that happens,
GEORGE PATAKI
I made an off-hand remark that I would be chairman only so long until we have a Democrat governor of...
GEORGE PATAKI
We must move forward with our first priority, the creation of an inspiring memorial to pay tribute t...
GEORGE PATAKI
a transportation hub worthy of the 21st century.
GEORGE PATAKI
Let this great Freedom Tower show the world that what our enemies sought to destroy -- our democracy...
GEORGE PATAKI
Governor Bush in my view has the qualities, the personal qualities, the ideas, and the record to be ...
GEORGE PATAKI
Ensuring the security of New York's port operations is paramount and I am very concerned with the pu...
GEORGE PATAKI
She's been a tremendous partner,
GEORGE PATAKI
We have a lot of good candidates out there and when it comes to running for office, it's a very pers...
GEORGE PATAKI
They're running someone who is not a New Yorker. Someone who has not paid taxes in New York, someone...
GEORGE PATAKI
We are committed to doing everything possible to ensure (the industry) remains strong and vibrant fo...
GEORGE PATAKI
I personally believe that the celebration of freedom is not inconsistent with the goals of memoriali...
GEORGE PATAKI
The celebration of freedom is not inconsistent with the goals of memorializing our nearly 3,000 lost...
GEORGE PATAKI
Obviously it's disturbing; it's just not right, ... The public should know at the same time. ... The...
GEORGE PATAKI
Today we take 20 tons of Adirondack granite -- the bedrock of our state -- and place it as the found...
GEORGE PATAKI
I think it will be reassuring to the families that the president will be here. I think it's a positi...
GEORGE PATAKI
We do know that numbers of police and firemen are missing and pay tribute to their heroism.
GEORGE PATAKI
The sanctions are real, they will be enforced.
GEORGE PATAKI
This new measure dramatically reforms what was one of the fastest growing fiscal responsibilities fo...
GEORGE PATAKI
Since June, we have offered the International Freedom Center (IFC) the time they needed to clarify t...
GEORGE PATAKI
When I look at Washington today, we need to bring us together. We need to solve problems, we need to...
GEORGE PATAKI
We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock,...
GEORGE PATAKI
I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in depende...
GEORGE PATAKI
Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it to...
GEORGE PATAKI
We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improvin...
GEORGE PATAKI
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.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN
I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
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.
GEORGE BURNS
It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
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.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and als...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
For proper family portraits it's best to stick with classic, timeless looks that will not only b...
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
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.
GEORGE ORWELL
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
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.
GEORGE ORWELL
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually l...
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...
GEORGE ORWELL
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
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
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL
I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE