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
break-a-leg legs left-behind
All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.
disillusionment
Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
mind illusion harmony
To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.
love-life religion consciousness
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
beauty pleasure
Beauty is objectified pleasure.
grace elude depth
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
mind adequate principles
There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.
ideas literature events
To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
intelligent use reform
The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.
echoes heaven world
I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.
tunes concerts hard
In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else
fate artist men
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.
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.