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
brain becoming mathematics
I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.
luck chance strings
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
spiritual literature amusing
bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.
literature too-much injury
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.
writing thinking interesting
I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.
hands letters kind
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
writing mind answers
I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.
christian attitude lying
the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.
jealousy pain eye
One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.
facts latter former
The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.
stress bows intensity
The bow always strung ... will not do.
men intelligence intellectual
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
hands glasses bird
There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.
echoes soul immortality
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.