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
emotional affinity felt
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
hate opportunity men
If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.
hate self rejection
Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
impossible aging assumption
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
art artist should
Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
art study slips
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
beauty environment harmony
Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.
beauty beautiful all-things
To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.
beauty beautiful taste
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
art echoes art-is
Art is a delayed echo.
believe thinking vision
He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
adventure age spirit
Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
philosophy character men
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
inspirational inspired conditions
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.