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
lying degrees license
Lying, like license, has its degrees.
believe heart character
I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't slough off.
world matter way
The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.
wisdom wall men
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.
inspirational motivational strength
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
helping-others humanity trying
Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.
inspirational inspiring effort
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
ice darkness world
Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.
life inspirational-life writing
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
happy people common
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
writing passion tasks
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
believe indifferent
I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent.
heart intellect
The intellect seeks, the heart finds.
moving mountain move-mountains
It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.