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

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

William Francis Buckley

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• You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Play
  • Ahead

• Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Me
  • More
  • Anything

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Imagination
  • Matter

• I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Work
  • Today
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• I'm not really a food connoisseur.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Food
  • Really
  • Connoisseur

• One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Reading

• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Work
  • Success

• For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Blonde

• When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Wonder
  • Wonders
  • Itself

• A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Different
  • You
  • Direction

• I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • You
  • Better

• Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Men
  • Purpose
  • Mountains

• Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Want
  • Winter
  • Fast

• I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Very
  • Bed
  • Early

• I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today's youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Different
  • Today
  • Party

• There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

  

  Anne M. Mulcahy
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Powerful

• Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wish
  • Poverty
  • Littles

• The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled - the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth - flies in the face of reality.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Reality

• Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Reality
  • Approach
  • Cost