George Will Quotes

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

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• How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I love Rag & Bone, Dior, and Valentino; I like feminine, sexy things. Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel, too.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Like
  • Things
  • Sexy

• If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Help

• I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Space
  • Years
  • Battle

• You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Good
  • Food
  • Know

• We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Road
  • Open
  • Cycling

• Everyone needs help when they try something new.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • New
  • Try

• TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Like
  • TV
  • Medium

• Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Exercise
  • Version
  • Bulimia

• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Fashion
  • End

• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Loved

• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • May
  • Dream

• That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

  

  Jack Anderson
  • Great
  • Team
  • Lost

• Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Action
  • Behavior
  • Theory

• It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Me
  • Daughter
  • Because

• Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Me
  • Understanding
  • Director

• And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Better
  • Pictures
  • Early

• All I can say to the younger theorists is: don’t trust anyone over 45, except maybe me, and I’m not so sure about me.'

  

  Philip Warren Anderson
  • Trust

• What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appeared. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Children
  • Death
  • Arrest

• I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen
  • Business
  • Mom
  • Ballet

• The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

  

  George Will
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Grace