George Will Quotes

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

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• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Amazing
  • Holmes
  • Katie

• I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Girl
  • Wrong
  • Choir

• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • First
  • Well

• The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • More
  • Learned
  • Felt

• I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Family
  • First

• Alibaba spends money on improving the products and services, not on kickbacks. That's a good thing. It's called a value system, and because of that, we get more and more small- to medium-sized companies to support us in China.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Money
  • Small

• If any ask me what a free Government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Free
  • Purpose

• It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Way

• I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

  

  C.D. Wright
  • Poetry
  • Doubt
  • Lies

• The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Character
  • Gospel

• We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Government
  • Services
  • Accountable

• If the use of military force, or the threat of use of military force, is necessary to bring about a political solution, NATO is prepared to do it.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Threat
  • NATO
  • Military force

• My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

  

  John Barrymore
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Hot

• Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

  

  Aristotle
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Desire

• Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Firsts
  • Endurance
  • Endure

• In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

  

  U Thant
  • War
  • Modern
  • Victor

• I'm a modern-day renaissance man.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Man
  • Modern
  • Renaissance

• I believe that the vast majority of people that are unfaithful are monogamous in their beliefs. The ones who are not monogamous in their beliefs either live in poly relationships or consensual non-monogamous relationships, or they have divorced. If it's very bad, then people don't stay married these days in the West. They can be married and have their family, but they want something else - they want something that they don't have in their lives, or simply to be someone that isn't who they are in the context of their marriage.

  

  Esther Perel
  • People
  • Belief
  • Married

• I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility.

  

  Alex Sink
  • Responsibility
  • Standup
  • Cabinet

• I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Life
  • Learn
  • My Life

• Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

  

  George Will
  • Belief
  • Modern
  • Philosophic