Everything Quotes

No, I'm not anguished and tormented.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

When they boo you, you know they mean you.

Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.

You can achieve only that which you will do.

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Big Brother is watching you.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.