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
life wisdom peace
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
god religious hands
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
spiritual country anger
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
success congratulations men
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
appreciation time book
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
sympathy marriage relation
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
ignorance literature hours
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
travel integrity journey
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
love evil effort
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
dog live-life animal
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
inspirational motivational work
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
consequence
Consequences are unpitying.
men life-and-death likes
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.