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
luxury mind rooms
In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
levels materialism felt
I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
dream waking daylight
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
taken sight doors
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.
pain hatred cry
There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.
stupid sarcasm blow
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
mean indulge-in errors
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
law medicine people
The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
horse equestrian miles
A good horse makes short miles.
dark rivers clouds
There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.
inspirational knowing language
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
strong conceited self
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
love long silence
Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
men joy forever
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.