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
shells thousand
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
tides body evolution
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
time knowing eternity
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
saints-and-sinners saint easier
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
get-well mind body
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
substance causes opinion
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
half opinion reason
Docility is the observable half of reason.
free-gifts miracle moments
Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
higher-ground luck needs
If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.
mecca world bigs
It's a big world, and I really like it.
honesty irony honest
Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
strength peace war
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.
motivational leadership army
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
unrequited-love love-is errors
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.