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
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.
work passion tasks
I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.
believe men justice
Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.
kissing air lips
When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you....
young-love needs danger
Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.
dream thinking years
Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.
half heroic
a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.
trouble fretting
fretting at trouble only doubles it.
novel happens
Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.
admiration stranger aeroplanes
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
suffering cups drink
we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.
upset mind succeed
I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.
stupid doubt world
Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.
sorrow very-good
Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.