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

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.

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• No one expected me to become a champion.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Me
  • Champion
  • Become

• My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Parents
  • Lessons
  • Expected

• If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Country
  • True
  • Course

• Good is not good when better is expected.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Good
  • Better
  • Expected

• I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Never
  • Minister
  • Prime

• Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Worked
  • Ministers
  • Homosexuality

• Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Up
  • Good
  • Smoking

• It undermines the key relationship between civil servants and ministers, ... It has led to very great concern, I may say, among the whole of the diplomatic service.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Great
  • May
  • Relationship

• Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Writing
  • Powerful
  • Retiring

• I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Retiring

• Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Done
  • Career
  • Success

• The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians and that within three weeks we will be negotiating (God forbid that this should happen). May we at last be avenged for all the outrages we have suffered from this country!

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • God
  • Country
  • May

• Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • She
  • Nature
  • Trust

• The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty, as was suggested by someone in the Prime Minister's office, is very dangerous and reflects an irrationality of values.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Ideas
  • Office
  • Prime

• I kinda expected to turn the bottle and see a recipe. "So that's how you make ice cubes. Apparently you just freeze this stuff. Oh, but you need a tray. That's how they trick you into it."

  

  Jim Gaffigan
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• Everything I got comes from Elijah Mohammed. He taught me who I was, he made me proud, he made me fearless, he made me love my own, I’ve turned down millions to keep from selling out my people, the beautiful name Mohammed Ali. And white people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of his in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.White people make me thinkin' that I'm smart, and as soon as I leave Elijah you can get me. But as long as I stay with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I'm safe.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Proud
  • Destroy
  • Ministers

• White people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of Elijah Mohammed in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Leader
  • Destroy
  • Ministers

• When people are unsettled, loyal ministers arise.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Ministers
  • Arise

• My faith is ultimately what led me to start protesting and it's what continues to drive me.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Protesting
  • My Faith
  • Drive Me

• Be humble, believe in yourself, and have the love of the world in your heart.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Believe
  • Heart

• It took less time to build 'Instagram' than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012.

  

  Mike Krieger
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• The denunciation and smearing of truly gifted people like Rodriguez—people the Chicano community should be proud of—by the self-appointed gatekeepers of Chicano Studies is, alas, an everyday spectacle. Did anyone in the Chicano Studies community even take note when Dana Gioia, who is one of the best poets of his generation and happens to be half Mexican American, was named chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002? No, because he made it on his merits and not by being a victimization hustler.

  

  Bruce Bawer
  • People
  • Denunciation
  • Rodriguez

• Our society is stuck between problem and solution when it comes to treating mental illness. We cannot find a solution until we agree on the problem. And it is my humble opinion that the problem is fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of the misunderstood. Instead, let us seek to pursue knowledge over fear. Let's find a way to save lives that can be saved.

  

  Hannah Hart
  • Society
  • Problem
  • Solution

• If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.

  

  William Francis Buckley
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