SL Buckley Quotes

Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God.

Why should any country continue, forever, to be "great"?

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

To do something that will just fly away is kind of special. Every time somebody tell you they love you, that "I love you" flies away, and you wait until the next one.

So I'll wait for you... And I'll burn Will I ever see your sweet return? Oh, will I ever learn? Oh, Lover, you should've come over Cause it's not too late.

I've already created my own thing.

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

Please, don't hate me because I am beautiful.

Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

Industry is the enemy of melancholy

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

In love we are all brothers and sisters

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.

No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive.

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

We love your adherence to democratic principles.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last.

As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

The only bad ideas are the ones never tried.

The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.

I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.

The night is young, and by the grace of magic, so are we.

Freaky monsters were trying to kill us," Sabrina said. "Should I have just died out there so you could keep your clubhouse secret?" "Absolutely!" the prince said.

Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.

Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.