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

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

William Francis Buckley

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• Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Serious

• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Political

• My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Life
  • Work
  • She

• God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?

  

  Walter Kirn
  • God
  • Character
  • Enough

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Brain

• Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Stars

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Desire
  • Achievement

• It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Sad
  • Right

• I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Whole
  • Ridiculous
  • Insanity

• The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Way
  • Flowers
  • Bee

• Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Freedom
  • Education
  • Justice

• You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

  

  Andreas Schleicher
  • Money
  • Education
  • Quality

• Dear Habicht, Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Feel
  • Silence
  • Solemn

• You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Memory
  • Results
  • Names

• I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Education
  • Firsts
  • Faculty