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

• One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Live
  • Disease

• 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

• It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Up
  • Job
  • Funny

• 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

• I like all of the books I work on to be ones you can pick up without knowing the entire history of the character, because then, not only can you enjoy it as is, but it encourages you to look into the history of that character and their world.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam's forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul - where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures - then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004.

  

  Luke Harding
  • Long
  • City
  • April

• 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

• Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Function
  • Aspect

• Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Thinking
  • Confidence
  • Secret

• 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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