George Will Quotes

Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.

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• The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Perfect
  • Civilization
  • Rare

• I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Mother
  • You
  • Woman

• There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • People
  • Pride
  • Humility

• When technology is ready for something novel, when the components needed to build something new become affordable, it is going to be done by someone and more likely by several people.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Done
  • Technology

• After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Explore

• I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Different
  • Want
  • Party

• To return to the question of strategy...The Falkland Islands are unlikely to cause a major explosion.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Question

• Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sight, and the more fun we have the more people will want to join us.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Fun
  • Awesome

• Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death

• When you’re a charmer the world applauds they don’t know that secretly charmers feel like they’re frauds When you’re a charmer you hate yourself a victim of sideshow hypnosis like everyone else.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • World
  • Hate

• The biblical times have come back again, the great invasions of the Medes and the Persians. Has the world, then, reached the point where it deserves to be punished for the egotistical epicureanism in which it has slumbered?

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • World
  • Great

• Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

  

  Jane Porter
  • Heart
  • May
  • Light

• I eat a lot. I'm a big sandwich dude. Turkey, mayonnaise, mustard, cheese, yes. I love craft services.

  

  Jason Mitchell

• I understand and I don't understand human beings.

  

  Bernard Hopkins

• It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Lost

• I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

  

  Dudley Moore

• When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Up

• Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

  

  Anurag Kashyap

• Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.

  

  Confucius
  • Evil
  • Worry
  • Honor

• It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.

  

  Barbara Myerhoff
  • Truth
  • Danger
  • Convictions

• In my job, I worry a lot and try and stay calm and open. It sometimes works.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Job
  • Worry
  • Calm

• Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.

  

  George Will
  • Honor
  • Clinton
  • Snail