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
envelopes pushing evolution
I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.
mold fingers loveliness
God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
farewell believe evil
Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.
cheating simple soul
There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.
thankfulness thanks good-things
To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
fairytale may allegory
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.
fairytale should
Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.
folly my-own ugliness
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?
background-noise waiting make-you-happy
Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.
agreement sight people
In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.
infancy-is rights mind
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
old-friends stories used
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
diversity different thrones
Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.
big-fish storm paddling
The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)