George Will Quotes

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

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• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Will
  • Anger

• Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Right

• You can stroke people with words.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Words
  • You

• Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Work
  • Negative

• Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Try
  • Take
  • Retreat

• Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • She
  • Earth
  • Professional

• The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • America
  • Hate

• Whenever you manage more than 100 attorneys, there's always going to be attorneys who believe that someone isn't as good as they are.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Good
  • Believe
  • You

• A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Democracy
  • Practice
  • Forced

• Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light

• My whole thing is I’m not into civilization as a whole. The only actual solution is the eventual collapse and demise of civilization . . .I think it needs to happen, but no one, not even me, really wants it to happen.

  

  Andy Hurley Fall Out Boy

• Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Good

• I hope for my children, and for all Mexicans, that they can be proud to be Mexican, proud of their heritage, and proud that they have a peaceful, inclusive, vibrant country that is playing a role in the world.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • World
  • Country
  • Children

• I'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy.

  

  Gayle King

• I have two poodles - I'm a poodle person.

  

  Kathryn Newton

• Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile.

  

  Ellen Ochoa
  • People
  • Hope
  • Career

• I don't eat wheat and am into alternative medicines and treatment.

  

  Arizona Muse

• I never made it on 'Castle.' I tried a few times, so I don't know, but it never worked out.

  

  Alan Tudyk

• Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art 'lives' where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the 'self' vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Remember

• At primary school, me and my best friend used to do D.I.Y. assemblies, and we'd do it as many times as we could until we got banned! We used to sing 'Hero' by Mariah Carey; it was, like, my favourite song; we were obsessed with it. We'd do it as a duet, and it's the first I remember performing.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • School
  • Remember
  • Song

• Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Discipline

• Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

  

  George Will
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