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
summer sleep dark
A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.
destiny glasses life-is
The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.
summer summer-days
I let my summer days pass idly on.
lonely sweet men
Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure by; Has burst all flowery chains by which men aye have been enthralled; Has been stone-deaf to voices sweet, that softly, sadly called; Has scorned the flashing goblet with the bubbles on its brim; Has turned his back on jewelled hands that madly beckoned him; Has, in a word, condemned himself to follow out his plan By stern and lonely labor--and has died, a conquered man!
effort religion use
God can, has and will use anybody who is open to serving Him to convey the gospel. He will bless the efforts of His servants whether they are gifted as evangelizers or not.
religion way assumption
We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.
speech young therapy
I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.
weed flower competition
Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.
yield chicago economic
Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.
directors fierce cliche
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.
training chicago graduates
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
regulation study 1960s
It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.
topics size survivor
In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.
time plums spirit
You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.