Quotes from George F. Will

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal

A disquieting era of genetic manipulation is coming, one that may revolutionize human capacities, and notions of health. If we treat moral scruples impatiently, as inherently retrograde in a scientifically advancing civilization, we will not be in moral trim when, soon, our very humanity depends on our being in trim.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrassing Amendment.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

Socialism, born and raised in France, is unpersuasive even to the promiscuously persuadable French.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

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

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It's violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie — frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Her style betrays a self-satisfied exaggeration of her aptitudes." (In reference to Vice President Harris)

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

We used to be a nation that celebrated people who got things done. Now we celebrate people who stop things getting done.

The utter absence of proof for a proposition is proof of a successful conspiracy to destroy all proof.