Paul Will
Paul Will
loss numbers tragedy
The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.
patience real thinking
I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.
hey way wonderful
This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.
smart president needs
If the president of the United States, if he's smart, if he needs help, he’d come. I could do a favor for the president
understatement
Muffled lives explode in understatements.
typewriters cities scotch
The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.
poet term
One must love a poet on its own terms.
humility men law
In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.
land america environmental
In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.
rewards things-change recognition
If you talk about change but don't change the reward and recognition system, nothing changes.
timing turnaround
We're confident about a turnaround, but the timing is clearly later.
learning spiders facts
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
forgiveness genius stones
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
objectivity ornaments saws
We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.