Famous Quotes & Sayings

Niall Ferguson

My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated by a sense that the alternatives involve more violence, more repression, more hardship.

Niall Ferguson

American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.

Newt Gingrich

As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.

Noah Webster

Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

Noam Chomsky

The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed.

John Ashbery

How funny your name would be if you could follow it back to where the first person thought of saying it, naming himself that, or maybe some other persons thought of it and named that person. It would be like following a river to its source, which would be impossible. Rivers have no source.

Jodi Picoult

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

Jodi Picoult

It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

Jodi Picoult

And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

Keegan Allen

The stage calls my name.

Olivia Wilde

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

Oliver Goldsmith

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

Oliver Goldsmith

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

Margaret Atwood

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

Margaret Atwood

No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.

Margaret Atwood

But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries.

Margaret Atwood

I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.

Marcus Miller

Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself. I heard him in France and was immediately struck by his individuality and his sound.

Kinky Friedman

If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.

Katie Cassidy

I wanted to make a name for myself.

Margaret Thatcher

Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice

Margaret Deland

... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.

Margaret Deland

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

Margaret Cho

Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.

Larry Shyatt

Don’t coach for the name on your business card

Larry the Cable Guy

I know I don't want to take the Lord's name in vain, and I don't want to drop any F-bombs.

Larry Wall

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...

L. Neil Smith

Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.

Paul Celan

Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.

Oscar Wilde

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

Oscar Wilde

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

L'Wren Scott

In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

Lucretius

And thus thou canst remark that every act At bottom exists not of itself, nor is As body is, nor has like name with void; But rather of sort more fitly to be called An accident of body, and of place Wherein all things go on.