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
glasses magnifying-glass magnifying
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
sometimes rage nonsense
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
keys mystery wonder
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
money luxury giving
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
friendship agreement delight
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
inspirational education wisdom
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
heart squirrels history
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
hope pain live-life
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
lying responsibility tolerance
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
happiness inspiring perseverance
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
family children littles
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.