William Safire Famous Quotes
"What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight."
I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.
"I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted-not my hand held by an old smoothie."
One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.
No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.
"Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is You can't beat Somebody with Nobody."
The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy I don't know and I don't care.
William Safire Quotations
"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."
George Gordon Byron
"To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight."
William Shakespeare
People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
Eric Hoffer
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish."
E M Cioran
"The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life."
Albert Pike
"Years later, people look back upon their darkest day and say -- as Churchill said of London's war years -- 'This was our finest hour.' In a tough spot right now You may be on the very edge of winning"
Guy Lynch
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
Andy Warhol
"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."
Elizabeth Hardwick