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
strong philosophy roots
How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.
home hypocrisy abuse
It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.
men race imagination
There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.
history knows repeats
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.
hate hatred form
The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
happiness years how-to-be-happy
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
regret grief affection
O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.
safe danger toms
Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.
genius fetters
Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters ...
friends utterance my-friends
It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.
friends yesterday forever
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
men fishing quality
It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
fear intellectual substance
To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.
faces ciphers poet
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!