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
mistake forbearance
You mistake patience for forbearance.
league way jaime-lannister
I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.
mistake self cynical
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
inattention contempt familiarity-breeds-contempt
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
grind my-thoughts
I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.
writing-history needs historian
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
time achieve form
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
disillusionment
Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
echoes heaven world
I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.
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.