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
fighting men done
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
men wind certain
But certain winds will make men's temper bad.
noble vengeance scorn
In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
opportunity skills temptation
The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
cutting two ties
Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.
men joy forever
There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.
eggs silence may
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
tone unexpected persons
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.
darkness secret wish
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.
punishment yoke
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
morning stars moon
All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!
rivers feet choices
How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.
travel shapes fool
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure
ideas doubt moments
The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.