George Will Quotes

Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.

George Will

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• After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Win
  • Celebrate
  • Ice

• That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Long
  • Father
  • Parents

• I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Politics
  • United States

• New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • See
  • Place
  • New York

• Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Religion
  • Punishment

• Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Played

• I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Great
  • Woman
  • Better

• It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • You
  • Know
  • Filmmaking

• The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Just
  • Number
  • Parts

• Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Car

• But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Design

• I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, 'What happened next?'

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Question

• I call this The Dictator Syndrome.  You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it.  But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only if you were an absolute dictator-having at your disposal all the government's power to compel everyone to do things your way.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Real
  • Power

• If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• My mother Earth!And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains,Why are ye beautiful? I cannot love ye.And thou, the bright eye of the universe,That openest over all, and unto allArt a delight-thou shin'st not on my heart.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Mother

• When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• The theme song of 'Doug' was my ringtone once for literally a year.

  

  Kimiko Glenn
  • Song

• Be purity of life the test, leave to the heart, to heaven the rest.

  

  Charles Sprague Sargent
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Rest

• To see your spouse in a parental role is one of the most incredible things.

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck

• Great images take you on a journey via a single photograph. The depth and layers pull your eye all over the frame, causing you to pick up interesting pieces along the way, ultimately coming to a climax.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Up
  • Great
  • Interesting

• All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Fear
  • Air
  • Enough

• I never met him. But just growing up where Deacon Jones did, he motivated me to be great, showing the NFL was possible.

  

  Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
  • Great
  • Growing
  • Never

• Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.

  

  George Will
  • Reality
  • Attitude
  • Perception