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
different aging old-woman
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
passion divine capacity
The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine
hands ties body
You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.
religion force built
No religion can be built on force.
revolution
No one makes a revolution by himself.
humanity outraged
Humanity is outraged in me and with me.
weed heart errors
Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.
kings noble earth
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
vanity vices slave
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.
time nuts driven
Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.
stars volcanoes wind
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
years age
Years do not always make age.
nature lying eye
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes...
jealous doubt the-end-of-the-day
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.