George Moore Quotations

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Obviously, we're going to be higher by Labor Day. If we add another 20 cents, that takes us to about $2.75.

God is a great expense but government would be impossible without him

He was standing like he was going to smash a bug,

It hurts their cause when people say that kind of thing,

We do want to see international and American investment in Zaire, but right now, investment is going to be affected by the fact that there is a civil war.

To be aristocratic in Art one must avoid polite society

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.

When I was shooting pool that night, he stumbled into the pool table,

Earl lunged at them and had them both by the shoulders and the shirts, ... That's when the fight broke out. All I seen was Eli and Earl going at it.

Probably everything you've heard is true, ... but we've got to put that into context.

Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.

A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world around us

A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine

It's about as drastic as you can imagine, ... It's a real blow to the entire industry and it will probably be 20, 25 years before we get back to a sense of normalcy.

It is really exciting as we will be pitting ourselves against several full-time clubs, which will generate a lot of interest for the fans, ... The stage is now set and the fans have been looking for a change. We set a target of about five years to get out of the Third Division, looking to the examples of Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ross County. That has now been achieved, but we are realistic enough to know that this time next year the club could be involved in its first ever relegation battle.

It's going to take years before we can get into a good routine of growing timber at the rate we are harvesting timber,

It's detrimental from the standpoint of wood supply inventory,

No man, however great, is known to everybody and no man, however solitary, is known to nobody

The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.

I'm glad to see that we can help, but I want them to help themselves,

Genius and stupidity never stray from their respective paths; talent wanders to and fro, following every light.

All of a sudden now, every night seems to be picking up and picking up so we're happy, it's great to have the students back.

The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas.