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
our-thoughts
Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
spiritual shoes feet
The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.
disappointment lying forever
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es
kindness home thoughtful
He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.
pride self satisfaction
One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
friendship character self
For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .
stars may ass
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
music world invisible
So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
ideas way looks
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
beauty lovely lovely-woman
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
sorrow trying failing
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
pain anger men
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
beauty language speak
Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
ideas doubt moments
The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.