Life Quotes

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

William Frederick Book

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

William Frederick Book

A man must earnestly want.

William Frederick Book

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

William Frederick Book

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

William Frederick Book

I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.

William G. Boykin

Those Muslims in America's army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.

William G. Boykin

There is no greater threat to America than Islam.

William G. Boykin

Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just as a chain of workers pass buckets of water to a fire. The quicker the workers move their hands and arms, the quicker the water moves.

William Henry Bragg

The difference between a gas and a liquid is that in the former, the atoms and molecules move to and fro in an independent existence, whereas in the latter, they are always in touch with one another, though they are changing partners continually.

William Henry Bragg

When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift off the air from the surface of the liquid and push it back en masse.

William Henry Bragg

Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms and molecules.

William Henry Bragg

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

William J. Brennan, Jr.