George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
rivers soul receptive
To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.
selfish artist giving
A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.
thinking america might
... we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom ...
grateful writing speech
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.
integrity ashamed doing-right
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.
drama thinking done
When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.
strong joy soul
To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
lasts moments critical
But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.
heaven mind movement
How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?
thinking hardship pretending
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
love mystery divine
Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
art light mind
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.
art kind fine
Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation ...
dinner furniture world
... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.