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
kings crow crowns
How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?
echoes vision arms
Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
equilibrium idiocy universe
Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
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.
vanity support forgiving
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
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.
past infancy-is history
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
humility men grace
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
writing-history needs historian
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
dignity fixed traveler
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
time achieve form
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
theater artifice
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.
columbus world another-world
Columbus gave the world another world.