George Will Quotes

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

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• The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Situation
  • Worst
  • Lead

• Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Political

• The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Lost

• We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Like
  • Child
  • Worst

• Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Free
  • Environment
  • Violence

• I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Worst
  • Prejudice

• I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • World
  • Like

• A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Hate

• Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Done
  • Together
  • Violence

• Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Violence
  • Will

• In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.

  

  Adolph Gottlieb
  • Fear
  • Powerful
  • Violence

• The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Truth
  • War
  • Law

• What we in Iran had in common with Fitzgerald was this dream that became our obsession and took over our reality, this terrible, beautiful dream, impossible in its actualization, for which any amount of violence might be justified or forgiven.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Dream
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

  

  Clare Short
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Violence
  • Drama

• As the ANC, we have got to condemn violence as a method of addressing our differences and disputes amongst us.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Violence

• Many of us believed that Black Lives Matter would move this country to not only reckon with white racism but to usher in new laws and practices that would curb vigilantism and law enforcement violence. But, instead, white nationalism was nurtured and began to take root among the American people.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • World
  • Single
  • Violence

• New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, 'Jane is now friends with Tom.' The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Friends
  • Picture
  • Connection

• I'm in the lane where I can make music but also have it be funny and still good at the same time.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Bold
  • Liberal
  • Honour

• Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

  

  George Will
  • Violence
  • Worst
  • Meetings