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

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

William Francis Buckley

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• I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Movies
  • Same

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Long
  • School
  • I Can

• Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Health

• One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Sometimes
  • Write

• You cannot mix sports with politics.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • You
  • Sports
  • Politics

• We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Environment
  • Development

• Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Character
  • City
  • Delhi

• Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Up
  • Draw
  • Estimation

• You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Job

• All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Ass

• The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?

  

  Vishwanath Pratap Singh
  • People
  • Stop

• I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Body
  • Yoga
  • Self

• We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Wind
  • Destiny
  • Ocean

• Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Way
  • Fall
  • Water

• If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Good
  • Important
  • Small

• Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Good
  • Together
  • Wall

• My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.

  

  Paul Greengrass
  • Energy
  • Emotion
  • Films

• Out of the night that covers me, Black is the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Black

• There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Style
  • Kings
  • Empires

• The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Good
  • Done
  • King

• Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • True
  • Nature

• It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Kings
  • Arrogance