George Will Quotes

Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.

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• For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Remember

• This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Music
  • Enough
  • Sarcasm

• You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Time
  • Together
  • Powerful

• Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knowledge
  • Knows
  • Fame

• Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.

  

  John Milton
  • Children
  • Foretold
  • Henceforth

• How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Envy
  • Explain
  • Yields

• Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Writing
  • Mean
  • Exciting

• We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Happy
  • Quality
  • Created

• The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Computer
  • Production

• The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.

  

  Catullus
  • Air
  • Fit
  • Lovers

• In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large that they are hard to encompass with one synthetic glance. But in this crude form they are not scientific facts at all; they are absolutely elusive, and can be fixed only by interpretation, by seeing them sub specie aeternitatis, by grasping what is essential in them and fixing this. Only laws and generalizations are scientific facts, and field work consists only and exclusively in the interpretation of the chaotic social reality, in subordinating it to general rules.

  

  Bronislaw Malinowski
  • Reality
  • Chaos
  • Insignificant

• A trial deals with only a limited amount of information, considering only the evidence which is available and also admissible and which relates directly to the charges on the indictment.

  

  Nicholas Davies
  • Information
  • Evidence
  • Charges

• That's what character is, it's in the trying.

  

  Eric Taylor
  • Character

• Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.

  

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