Will Johnson
Will Johnson
mass-transit arizona looks
You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.
lying outdated seeking
Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.
balance culture conflict
The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.
life art dark
My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad". It is true: at this time of year, when days are short and dark, and one hardly dares to open the newspapers, I turn, not vainly either, to the great creators of the past for distraction, solace and help.
family parent institutions
The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
america world mixtures
Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.
beautiful children railroads
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
men political obscurity
John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.
august hell paradigm
To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.
strong book passion
This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.
meaningful today used
The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.
writing lasts paper
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
evil envy political
The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.
running america leader
It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections