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
writing genius
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
husband men class
Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order,
anger leaving tears
Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.
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.
deception infidelity deceit
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
girl believe weather
A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?
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.
travel shapes fool
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure
rivers feet choices
How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.
morning stars moon
All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!
punishment yoke
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
tone unexpected persons
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.
eggs silence may
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.