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
heart tears my-heart
These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!
heart wrinkles
a woman's heart has no wrinkles.
winter waste twenties
One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.
prayer world lovers
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
joy sorrow knows
Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.
heart law two
God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.
country paris profound
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.
philosophy understanding style
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.
heart may knows
Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself
years age
Years do not always make age.
heaven earth refuge
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
quality noble virtue
I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.
country art lying
Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.
beautiful art sake
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.