SL Buckley Quotes

We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acquaintances, did they but know it.

People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.

I never disliked humanity more than when I watched how indifferently they reacted to creation

Are you familiar with that play?In fact, we're almost living it!

If one is fooled by magic, then isn't the magic as good as real?

Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I am a survivor NOT a victim.

Cheers went up around the decks as the Dolphins oars began to move as one in and out shifting and cutting away at the sea beneath, SICANIA RISING

your imagination is the key to the door of freedom

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

I didn't do it, ' he insisted.'Then why did you run?' Sabrina asked.'And send rabbits to eat us! I'm a seven-year-old girl, ' Daphne said. 'Do you know how important bunny rabbits are to me?

It’s human nature to view life from our own reality.This causes serious problems when a rescue mission is being led by the senile or insane.

...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love.The first thing you should know is that everyone lies. The second thing is that it matters.

[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom."-William F Buckley

If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You can't just wish for it and you can't put it in the hands of other people.

Whilst the beautifully crafted image of Michel Angelo's youthful looking priestesslooks out from her position on the ceiling of the sistine chapel linked forever with Heaven Earth and Time.

For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.

There really was no point in having vision that didn't revolve a full 360 degrees because it was usually from behind that life would sneak up and overtake you.

Don't become a grumpy old dater! Life ids for living, laughing and loving!Stop searching, start finding!

A fire only spreads away from it's source, it never returns.

She [Ayn Rand] had to declare that....altruism was despicable, that only self-interest is good and noble. (About Ayn Rand)

Your real name is a mortal name. Now you need one that is immortal, the one that takes the high stage and plays above the rest. You can't be immortal and mortal at the same time.

The first casualty of war is innocence. Don’t be so eager to find this out. I assure you, Andraste, war is ugly.” Legacy by SL Buckley

The causes of mistakes are "I didn't know" "I didn't think" and "I didn't care."

I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.

Keep your thoughts right for as you think so are you. Therefore think only those things that will make the world better and you unashamed.

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.

The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

I believe in the power of weakness.

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.

I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.

How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.