George Will Long Quotations

Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called self-interestedness. This was not a

For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!"

Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.