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
past confession form
... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.
mother spiritual brother
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.
may done better-yourself
There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.
lips pity divine
The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.
ease scene born
There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.
blow wind bird
Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.
children lying men
All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.
heart done bits
There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.
soul feelings firsts
The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.
eras youth something-better
There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.
writing errors furniture
All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!
book opinion written
My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
worry trouble employed
trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.
mind bows gymnasiums
I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.