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 motivation want
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
pain people literature
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
wisdom travel adventure
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
compassion joy suffering
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
limits wells
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
life numbers obscurity
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
men middlemarch courses
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
motivational spiritual dog
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
men despair habit
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.
science keys form
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.
education science people
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.
science water enthusiasm
Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.
might potatoes degrees
Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.