William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

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• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Painting
  • Kitchen
  • Busy

• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feel

• Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy

• I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Technology

• Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • May
  • Help

• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Love
  • Want
  • Find

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Opportunity
  • Small
  • Confidence

• Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Loved

• I've always followed this page on Instagram called the Sausage Dog Hotel.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Dog
  • Page
  • Hotel

• I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Read
  • Fiction
  • Newspaper

• I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Problem

• The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Heart
  • Financial
  • Risks

• I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • House
  • Always
  • Brand

• It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Die

• A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Conflict
  • Christianity

• I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Child
  • Mountain
  • Climb

• I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Want
  • Parents
  • Support

• Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that are crossing through our territory, who are coming from Central America.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Good
  • Children
  • America

• Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Relationship

• I believe in saying 'yes.' I love to work, and I always believe that the schedule can work out if everything is willing to allow it to work out.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Saying

• It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

  

  Dee Hock
  • Different
  • Wisdom
  • Trust

• Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Humility
  • Humble
  • Willing