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
time men numbers
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
time years littles
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops
patience reason-why patient
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
heart people sorrow
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
lying passion men
A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.
hate
She hates everything that is not what she longs for.
kissing forgotten empty
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.
sadness heart ties
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
nature eye past
Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.
perfect forbidden-love relation
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
mind desire dull
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.
children men earth
A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.
hate people dear
I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.
grief silence suffering
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.