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
  • Expected

• 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
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Expected

• 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

• Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Practice

• Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • War
  • Desire

• If I hurt somebody's feelings, I go right to them and talk to them and explain what happens. Sometimes I'm mad at myself because I left a pitch in the middle. It's big when you leave a pitch in the middle. When I make that mistake, it's frustrating for me. I have to think about what I did wrong and go to the next step.

  

  Carlos Zambrano
  • Hurt
  • Mistake
  • Talk

• There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to have songs that were about stuff - to try to make things more coherent.

  

  David Longstreth
  • Song
  • Language
  • Certain

• 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
  • Expected
  • Ministers
  • Retiring