A Quote by George Will

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

George Will

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George Will
American - Journalist
Born: May 4, 1941

I've observed a few things about the few really great people I've had a chance to meet and cover...They need to be around people. You and I require sleep. They require people.

David Brooks

Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.

Henri Nouwen

We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.

Thomas Jefferson

I learned to keep at a certain distance from things - and to make myself a little bit invisible while I observed and understood them.

Valeria Luiselli

Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

Stanley Kubrick

I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.

John Green

I grew up in a pretty economically safe, physically safe household, and, you know, now my life is defined by other people's trauma and by other people's emotional experience with it, and I think I'm richer for that, frankly.

Chris Murphy

I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance.

Terry Pratchett

There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.

Andy Rooney

The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.

William H. Stewart

We have a motto at Naropa: 'Keep the world safe for poetry.' It's humorous but has some real bite to it. If the world is safe for poetry, it can be safe for many other things.

Anne Waldman

Billy wanted me to stay a safe distance from the most important person in my life. It turned out that his concern was, in the end, unnecessary. I was all too safe now.

Stephenie Meyer

Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.

Colm Toibin

I do identify with Olympic athletes quite a lot because they have to push to reach a certain plateau and some of them go on and some of them give up and some art - you know, some people are very talented in art and do a few amazing things and then give it up and go on and do other things, and others are in it for the long haul, more or less long-distance runners.

Lawrence Jordan

Personal and mobile computing, long-distance communications, energy storage, and air travel are just a few of the things that have been democratized by technology, creating new possibilities for billions of people.

Dan Schulman

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