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.
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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.
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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
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Good is not good when better is expected.
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I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
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Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
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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!
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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When people are unsettled, loyal ministers arise.
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If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.
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I'm doing this because I want to do it better.
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I'm proud of my work, and I try my best.
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The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.
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If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.
