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
believe sight london
... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.
brain mind want
Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.' I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain.
silly writing people
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
clever inferiority lessons
If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.
weight faults helping
... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
new-year witty blessing
Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.
punishment rewards tongue
Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
children men growth
... men and women are but children of a larger growth ...
destiny feelings firsts
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
kindness self rivalry
He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
perfect imperfection inward
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
produce aim wanted
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
men ideas ifs
If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.
human-experience paradoxical humans
Human experience is usually paradoxical.