George Will Quotes

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

George Will

• Mean
• Behave

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • True
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Different
  • Me
  • Influence

• There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Morning
  • Distance
  • View

• I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Live
  • Free
  • Me

• We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Believe
  • Stop

• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Patience

• Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Popular

• I make the girls jump like I'm Kris Kross

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Girl
  • Jump
  • Bragging

• There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • History
  • Help
  • Today

• What a name – Pyotr Frankis. I wondered who had made it up for him. Pyotr Frankis, Jascha – Slavs all over the place, it would seem. Just like my great-grandmother. I felt for her in my mind about the same way you’d feel for a stray piece of food in your mouth with your tongue, but as usual, I had no sense of her beyond a particularly intense memory.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mind

• I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?

  

  Kanye West
  • Remember
  • Lost

• When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

  

  Oksana Chusovitina
  • Great
  • Years
  • Gymnastics

• The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.

  

  Octave Feuillet
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Form

• The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy-a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • People
  • Heart
  • Taken

• I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Confidence

• The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Children
  • Training

• You're going to tell me what I want to know. It's just a question of how much you want it to hurt.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Question
  • Hurt

• now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Sleep
  • Wine
  • Seven

• I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can say we definitely don't. So people will sometimes come in contact with something strange and think, "Oh, it must be like this" and have a lot of fantasies about it, and somebody who sort of looks like our fantasy version of what enlightenment is can be very convincing in seeming like they've got something and then play that role.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Culture
  • Role
  • Fantasy

• Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Future
  • Earth
  • Present

• Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Taxes
  • Voting
  • Citizenship

• Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

  

  George Will
  • Mean
  • Behave