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
messengers messages
Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me
wise book half
Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
death heart waiting
The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
wrongdoing
We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.
children niece passion
When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.
teach
Teach love, for that is what you are.
death brother journey
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.
character destiny aphorism
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
imagination doubt fuel
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.
successful goal too-late
It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.
people anxiety feelings
He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...
men reverence
There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.
beautiful truth giving
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
beautiful distance perspective
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!