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
lied ifs
Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true.
love-is honor duty
Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.
kings wall mean
Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.
crowns safe
No one who wears a crown is ever safe.
horse night wanted-love
He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.
fire dragons calm
He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon
morning hero thinking
You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We're all very tangled knots.
happy-endings
There are no happy endings.
gratitude debt pay
I heard a Lannister always pays his debts." "Oh, every penny....but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.
dragons ifs
...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.
world littles enough
If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn
fire cold preserves
Fire consumes, but cold preserves.
hate night names
She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.
kings wall mean
Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.