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
memories kindness children
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
missing comfort cushions
Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.
thinking looks looking-good
If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
beauty lovely lovely-woman
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
believe world belief
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
ideas way looks
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
saws merit neutrality
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
tragedy needs gone
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
opportunity views cheerful
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
work love-you play
You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.
conjecture allowance knows
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
light feet soldier
As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given to us to guide our own steps. We are like the foot soldiers, who hear nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle they are in, but hear plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey.
fear stronger probability
Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.
fear eye people
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.