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
half heroic
a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.
sex men mind
There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.
feelings losing blame
No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.
admiration stranger aeroplanes
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
home men doors
It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.
self intellectual able
living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.
littles towns plague
Gossiping is the plague of little towns.
ungrateful feelings ignorant
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.
sorrow very-good
Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.
progress treasure language
... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.
sex serious creation
Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.
lucky masterpiece
Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.
flower love-is feet
... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.
ambition mad done
My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.