George Will Quotes

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

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• Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Education
  • City

• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Work
  • Great
  • Respectful

• We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Attention
  • Pay Attention

• A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Economy
  • Nation
  • Rights

• After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • Why
  • Business

• You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Live
  • Today
  • Best

• Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Different
  • Play
  • Problem

• Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Art
  • Artists

• Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Time
  • Run
  • Leg

• To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Advantage
  • Disadvantage

• Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty- their power and privilege- to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • Power
  • Earth

• Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking

• For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Live

• There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Men
  • Night
  • Fear

• Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Time
  • God
  • Church

• I think that the corporation is running it and will always make it appeal to the lowest common denominator. I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Running

• It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

  

  Logic
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Intuition

• Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

  

  Mason Cooley

• We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

  

  Jon Brion
  • Movie

• The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.

  

  Ashraf Dehghani
  • Revolution
  • Duty
  • Torture

• I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

  

  Eugene Green
  • Spiritual
  • Humans
  • Relation

• Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.

  

  John Madden
  • Star
  • Baseball

• They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

  

  George Will
  • Justice
  • Baseball
  • Republican