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
sympathy depressing knowledge
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
prayer reflection roots
Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?
marriage mind religion
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.
religious pride men
... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.
fire shapes enthusiasm
There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.
wisdom knowledge judging
To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
rome world wanted
In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
wise real ems
...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.
feelings his-love speak
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.
and-love enough select
The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.
stupidity social unendurable
To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?
mean men imagination
A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.
handsome may lovable
But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?
husband tired wife
... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.