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
beauty sweet eye
What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?
archer perfect deer
Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.
blame reviews findings
How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.
new-experiences childhood lapses
All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.
opportunity air satisfaction
What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.
blow giving negativity
The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.
slavery may young
Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
failure matter golden
No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.
spring listening bud
Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance, Sap that trembles into buds Sending little rhythmic floods Of fairy sound in fairy ears. Thus all beauty that appears Has birth as sound to finer sense And lighter-clad intelligence.
fate passing-away today
Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!
gratitude escaping matter
When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.
honesty attitude spring
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.
jesus should-have coward
The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain-- The grandest death, to die in vain--for love Greater than sways the forces of the world!
failure half losing
In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.