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
archer perfect deer
Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.
beauty sweet eye
What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?
deeds action fetters
Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.
shoes boots trouble
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.
thinking dinner pudding
If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.
pain grief baptism
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.
men decision age
How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .
doors tools use
When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.
clever stupidity pigeons
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
discipline genius receiving
Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
weather impossible cold
It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.
winning victory sides
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.
firsts goodness reverence
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
mean blessing thinking
I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.