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

• 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

• Bombay, which sold about 120,000 copies, is widely rated as my most successful work, though Roja is definitely the score that brought me where I am today.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
  • Today

• There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • Life

• If I have no goals, I would retire now. I still have many: to win another league title, to win the Champions League, to win the Copa del Rey. To win the European Championships again.

  

  Iker Casillas
  • Goals
  • Win
  • Championships

• I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Beautiful

• Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Humans

• I definitely think an on-screen experience is universal, in a way.

  

  Martine Syms
  • Experience

• 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