George Will Quotes

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

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• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • People
  • Experience
  • Scratch

• As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• You want your coach's blessing.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Want
  • You
  • Blessing

• How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Game
  • You
  • Yesterday

• If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Going
  • Colour
  • Inequality

• To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Win
  • Luck

• After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Me
  • Engineering
  • Economics

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Live
  • Places

• I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Why
  • Remember

• I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Believe
  • Religious
  • Evolution

• It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Music
  • Trying

• Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Air
  • Fight
  • Dirty

• No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Time
  • Football
  • New

• It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • You
  • Intelligent
  • Two

• Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Wish
  • Question

• The supreme style of love is unknown love. If the affection is known by the beloved, that love is snob. If you sacrifice your life for the beloved, and she recognises your love after you die, your soul would be appraised.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • She
  • Soul

• I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy!

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Prince
  • Princess
  • Cheesy

• As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • Country
  • Past
  • Diversity

• I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'

  

  Don Lemon
  • Life
  • Sorry

• The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It's important to put that on the page.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Great
  • Important
  • History

• I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing. I didn't know that, nobody.. told me that. But when homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Country
  • America

• I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I plan to die at my desk.

  

  Don Hewitt
  • Die

• If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

  

  George Will
  • Country
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