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
peace men passionate
Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.
beauty past favour
It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
hands environmental age
What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
kings history interesting
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.
suffering institutions rational
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
shells thousand
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
together absurd transitory
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
tides body evolution
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
beauty beautiful taste
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
beauty perfection missing
The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.
passion sacred way
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
beauty beautiful all-things
To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.
beauty environment harmony
Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.
time knowing eternity
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.