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
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!
opportunity thinking long
It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
mother father men
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
nature fall autumn
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
opportunity men use
What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?
blessing sake obedience
It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
philosophy women facts
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
anticipation joyful
Go forward with joyful confidence.
knack anticipation estates
I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate...
stupid book stuff
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
moving years soul
For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.
christmas fashion hair
Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.
men hands breathing
Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
mean two flags
A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories