William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

William Francis Buckley

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• The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Giving
  • Community
  • Senior

• The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Desire
  • Reason
  • Nothing

• Desire is the very essence of man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Very

• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • War
  • Man
  • Desire

• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Wanted

• I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Desire
  • Myself
  • Find

• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Purpose

• Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• In addition we also hire many senior citizens.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Senior
  • Senior Citizens

• All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Men
  • Texas
  • Class

• Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Desire
  • Pressure

• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Live
  • Desire
  • Progress

• When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • School
  • Fun
  • Parents

• Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Fall

• As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Long
  • Heart

• Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Children
  • Attention
  • Class

• As the lead plaintiff in Veasey v. Abbott, I'm proud of our fight and the progress made.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Proud
  • Progress

• Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

  

  James Clavell
  • People

• Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Relation
  • Attainment

• If you have people invested emotionally in the success of their team, that usually translates to strong attendance.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • People
  • Success
  • Strong

• As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I thought about being an astronaut, a dinosaur scientist, or marine biologist, but I clearly was drawn to the ocean and to the water.

  

  Brian Skerry
  • Water
  • Boy
  • Ocean

• The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Desire
  • Class
  • Senior