George Will Quotes

Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life.

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• The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Writer

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • High
  • Black

• A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Asking
  • Species
  • Definition

• You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • You
  • Without

• The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Today
  • Rest
  • Democracy

• I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Think
  • Identity
  • Songwriting

• Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Life
  • Endurance

• I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant

• I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Different
  • Together
  • Team

• There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

  

  Frederick Soddy
  • Environment

• If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd

• Breast cancer, whether I like it or not, is part of my family's story. That's why I am so passionate about raising awareness, because I have seen firsthand how it can impact others.

  

  DeAngelo Williams
  • Family
  • Why
  • Cancer

• We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • God
  • Trying
  • Help

• Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• As seventh graders, my classmates and I would make rockets to see what made them fly and models of remote-controlled motor boats because Palanpur had heavy rainfall.

  

  Pranav Mistry
  • Fly

• So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Satan

• You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Inspiration
  • Say
  • Paint

• I'm a simple country neuroscientist, not an expert on democracy, but I do know something about how the brain works and how opinion-reinforcing bubbles can distort the picture of reality we build from the information we encounter on a daily basis.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Country
  • Reality
  • Simple

• We went through the records and we found over five hundred of his patients who were alive and well five years after their treatment, with no cancer. And Dr. Burton didn't selectively give us these. These were "take what you want. Here are the patients I treated." So there was statistical improvement - more so than any cancer institution in the United States could show.

  

  Gary Null
  • Cancer
  • Records
  • Alive

• Regardless of gender, marital status, or age, individuals can choose to link themselves directly to the Savior, hold fast to the rod of His truth, and lead by the light of that truth. By so doing, they become examples of righteousness to whom others will want to cling.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Age
  • Individual
  • Gender

• Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life.

  

  George Will
  • Simple
  • Individual
  • Improvement