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
enemy wavering belief
Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
fortitude massive
Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
may majestic emotion
Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.
judging desire paradise
But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.
animal thinking may
When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.
brother
Brothers are so unpleasant.
stupid believe towns
... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
book reading men
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
baptism conscious consecration
There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.
light thrill guests
If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.
heaven earth fit
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
bitter
I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
judging secret sin
We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.
fishes
Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.