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'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
GEORGE ADE A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, 'I've been going for three months.' I ...
RED SKELTON The Hispanic juvenile said he had the knife to protect himself. He was carrying it because he had be...
SHELLY WILLIAMS That isn't happening now. For example, I asked one high school principal if he thought students who ...
ALEX SAITTA Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ...
SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota...
FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv...
SUI HE I like to find old things
and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
...
LI HE These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more...
FENG HE The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ...
FENG HE They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa...
HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re...
HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin...
HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act.
HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods.
HE YAFEI Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ...
HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today.
HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties.
HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university.
HE WEIFANG The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have...
HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w...
HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined.
HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required.
HE CHANGCHUI He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
PHILIPPA GREGORY And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the a...
BIBLE Fred, you next," the plump woman said.
"I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, wo...
J.K. ROWLING He had us in a hole all night. He found the strike zone and he said, 'hit it,' and we didn't.
PHIL GARNER In his big victory speech last night, Senator Kerry said that he wanted to defeat George Bush and th...
JAY LENO She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulous...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, bee...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I'm coming back for you Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear on the river Styx.
RICK RIORDAN I've been waiting for you a long time, Alina" He said. "You and I are going to change the world.
LEIGH BARDUGO George is a dynamic individual who wants and demands perfection. He has an insatiable desire to win ...
AL ROSEN He fully confessed to all these thefts and said it was because he had a crack cocaine habit. In fact...
CRYSTAL CANDY He approached me and said he was thinking of going to law school. But then he told me what had happe...
GLENN KROLL He was old-school, old-time hockey. He showed up to play every night.
JODY GAGE I hadn't gotten him any proper training, and he was throwing the ball better than kids in high schoo...
DAN POWERS I hadn't gotten him any proper training, and he was throwing the ball better than kids in high schoo...
DAN POWERS He said that the man that they had been questioning admitted what he had done and he took my daughte...
ANGELA BRYANT Good hearted, he was happy, but he had been having a little tougher time lately with school.
MATT STONE He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
CHARLES II They gave him a steak the night before the bout and said they had prepared that one especially for h...
BERT SUGAR Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
DENNIS RODMAN He had just gotten off the plane the night before, and he had one of those deer in the headlights lo...
DON STRANGE When he got to the school, they would not let him in and he was later told Christopher had been shot...
MARK NATION Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this?" Harry asked.
"Well, I would, but he's alway...
J.K. ROWLING He hadn’t said a word to me until we had been roommates for eight months. And even then it had onl...
MELODY J. BREMEN One day just over five years ago, Danny (Dad) came to see me. He said he had sold his bass boat and ...
EDDIE THOMPSON She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...
JOSEPH CONRAD When I asked him how long he had been driving a taxi, he said, Dree mouse.
MIKE ROYKO If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.
DAVID HALBERSTAM Okay, men,” he said. “And women,” said Chaser Angelina Johnson. “And women,” Wood agreed. ...
J.K. ROWLING George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, a...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM The suspect answered the phone and said he had been waiting for a call so he could say where the bab...
INSPECTOR PAUL RAMALOKO When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known ...
WYNTON MARSALIS He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL George Ryan may have been greedy, but he was not stupid.
JOEL LEVIN Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abo...
J.K. ROWLING He had secret loves all over town, the kind of curly-haired big-bodied girls who wouldn't have said ...
JUNOT DíAZ Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail.
CHRISTINE WARREN Lennie rolled off the bunk and stood up, and the two of them started for the door. Just as they reac...
JOHN STEINBECK Ryan becomes the first male athlete to sign a Division I scholarship at Seneca. He has always had Ge...
DAVE LAFFERTY How do you feel, Georgie?’ whispered Mrs Weasley. George’s fingers groped for the side of his he...
J.K. ROWLING George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular com...
DREW CAREY He felt homesick for places he had never been. He missed hearts he had never loved.
PETE WENTZ The doctor said it would have been horrible if he had fought,
BERND BOENTE He asked me, 'Who are you?' I said, 'I don't know, can you please tell me who am I?' He had no answe...
TANMAYA GURU He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care.
"I'm coming back for you, Cal...
RICK RIORDAN And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus
whom thou persecutest: it is hard ...
BIBLE He had just been to the school earlier, but I didn't know for sure when he was there. So I went ahea...
BRENT VINSON Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but ...
WALTER KAUFMANN It's a relief. We had been told earlier that he said he was not going to give up without a fight.
KAMMIE MICHAEL The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will ...
J.M. BARRIE Are you happy here?" I said at last.
He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he sa...
DONNA TARTT George has been playing consistently well for Leicester, and he was certainly pushing to be in the 2...
ANDY ROBINSON Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, who...
BIBLE Their styles are very similar, ... He's learned a lot, he has a wonderful attitude and has tried to ...
STEVE SPURRIER Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: ...
BIBLE The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles whe...
SABINE BARING-GOULD There were a lot of things he could say. "Son of a bitch!" would have been a good one. Or he could s...
TERRY PRATCHETT He's the boss, but he works for me.
IKENNA OJUKWU The family said he had a kidney and liver transplant in 2004 and he had been to a doctor Monday. He ...
JASON MARKLE I left that meeting with the perception that I had been asked for the first time to fire an intellig...
CARL W. FORD JR He said he just couldn't handle it anymore. It had been a real struggle with this little girl with t...
DENNIS WARD He said he wouldn't change a thing. He didn't have any regrets. He was not for any glory. He said if...
JOEY ZAHN He had been giving money to some of these people (in office). He said, 'I'm as qualified to be in th...
DON CARRINGTON You’re mental,” said George, trying to push it back at Harry.
“No, I’m not,” said Har...
FRED AND GEORGE WEASLEY He said my mom had been in an accident and it looked like they were flying them out somewhere. He sa...
CATHY MANZANO We didn’t give it to him because he’s a Muggle!” said Fred indignantly. “No, we gave it to h...
J.K. ROWLING He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were specia...
CECELIA AHERN Don't say I never gave you anything," he said. " I gave you the stars. Good night, little sister.
CATE TIERNAN I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JONSON George told me that three years ago when he was in Cinema for Peace, he was called a traitor in Amer...
JAKA BIZILJ He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’...
J.K. ROWLING He said he had messed up.
CAPT. LENZIE STEWART He said he had something planned.
JEFFERY SWOFFORD He asked me how many high school games I had coached. I told him it was around 780, and he said, 'I ...
FLOYD CIRUTI I even mentioned it would only be right if we had a school named after him and he said no.
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Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.
GEORGE ADE One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.
GEORGE ADE Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
GEORGE ADE If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
GEORGE ADE The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.
GEORGE ADE Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
GEORGE ADE Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
GEORGE ADE She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
GEORGE ADE In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular ent...
GEORGE ADE After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
GEORGE ADE A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
GEORGE ADE For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
GEORGE ADE 'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
GEORGE ADE To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.
GEORGE ADE A good folly is worth what you pay for it.
GEORGE ADE Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense
GEORGE ADE The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking
GEORGE ADE A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
GEORGE ADE Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry
GEORGE ADE One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach
GEORGE ADE The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks aftr unpacking.
GEORGE ADE Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
GEORGE ADE One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.
GEORGE ADE If we still had the six-game season ticket available, I'm convinced all the five-game packages would...
GEORGE ADE If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable
GEORGE ADE We've sold more than 60,000 tickets, so after we get all the bands and other non-ticketed folks in, ...
GEORGE ADE Notre Dame is sold out, and Akron and Iowa will be by the end of the week, ... In the next two weeks...
GEORGE ADE Notre Dame is sold out, and Akron and Iowa will be by the end of the week. In the next two weeks, No...
GEORGE ADE We had a good sale (on Monday) and with (today's) sales up until game time, we should be able to sel...
GEORGE ADE It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
GEORGE ADE Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
GEORGE ADE The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
GEORGE ADE Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.
GEORGE ADE A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.
GEORGE ADE Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our mos...
GEORGE ADE It's going to be a beautiful day for football. We now have tickets in hand to meet what we expect wi...
GEORGE ADE Girlfriend: Does my bum look big in this? Me: It would look even better out of it.
Trust me it w...
ADE OKELARIN Religion can be likened as a hand pointing to the moon which is God. The hand navigates us the moon,...
ADE OKELARIN There is nothing more important than ones relationship with God.
ADE OKELARIN God is Love, but Love is not God
ADE OKELARIN Girlfriend: Does my bum look big in this? Me: It would look even better out of it.Trust me it works.
ADE OKELARIN We have agreed to control the production and circulation of alcohol.
ADE SUHARSONO I have no idea what will happen next week. Anything is possible in the NFL. I was just doing what we...
ADE JIMOH Before this, all TV stations ignored our warnings on their inappropriate broadcast content, saying t...
ADE ARMANDO We are doing this for the public, because the frequencies used by TV stations are public domain. So ...
ADE ARMANDO That's Antonio Brown. When you can run a 4.2 40 off of the couch, you can do anything you want.
ADE JIMOH They have big, physical receivers, and they came at me. Coach Walker was going over stuff on the sid...
ADE JIMOH That's why we have asked neighboring administrations to increase their supervision of alcohol sales.
ADE SUHARSONO Any company that violates the law will have its license withdrawn.
ADE SUHARSONO I don't really wanna know what makes you leave, or when you'll be back.
I just wanna know what ...
ADE SANTI I don't want that boy to fall over for just a bird that forgot that her wings are broken.
ADE SANTI 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