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

• Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• 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

• Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Actors
  • Act
  • Perfume

• 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

• Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Said
  • Speech

• Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

  

  William James
  • Perspective
  • Interest
  • Philosophic

• And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Want

• There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reality

• 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