William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

William Lewis Safir

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• Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Partner
  • Well
  • Trustworthy

• 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

• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Failure

• Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Me

• A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Me
  • Taught
  • Chief

• Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Writing

• I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Work

• I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Time
  • Important

• Although our body language governs the way other people perceive us, our body language also governs how we perceive ourselves and how those perceptions become reinforced through our own behavior, our interactions, and even our physiology.

  

  Amy Cuddy
  • People

• How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Men
  • Long
  • Live

• If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion.

  

  Wade MacNeil Alexisonfire

• Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Money
  • Business
  • Energy

• Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Good
  • Home
  • Wish

• Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

  

  Yanni
  • Emotional
  • Color
  • Painting

• As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.

  

  William Hartnell
  • Learn
  • Ourselves

• Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Effort
  • Discipline
  • Motivational

• Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him?

  

  Steven Rodney McQueen
  • Character
  • Screen
  • Audiences

• I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Willing
  • Libertarian