George Savile
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and…
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine…
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man?s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy…
When in doubt, do it.
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the…
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would…
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be…
It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his…
Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The government at Washington does live. It lives in the pages of our Constitution and in the hearts of our citizens, and there it will always be safe.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
I had a dream the other night. I dreamed that Jimmy Carter came to me and asked why I wanted his job. I told him I didn't want his job.…
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Money buys you everything except the chance to do it again.
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall…
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue…
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days…
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps…
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
To be, or not to be: that is the question.
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.