Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Dampier

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

William Cobbett

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.

William Cowper

Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.

Wayne Newton

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism's principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principle moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.

William Godwin

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

William Gurnall

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

William Barclay

Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which he is not involved... The fact is that God does not need to be invited into certain departments of life, and kept out of others. He is everywhere, all through life and in every activity of life. He hears not only the words that are spoken in his name; he hears all words; and there cannot be any such thing as a form of words which evades bringing God into any transaction. We will regard all promises as sacred if we remember that all promises are made in the presence of God.

Waylon Jennings

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

Stephenie Meyer

Romeo wouldn’t change his mind. That’s why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers

Stephen Amell

I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.

Stephen Chbosky

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

Stephen Chbosky

It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.

Stephen Colbert

I'm not going to name any names, but let's just say, I want to do jokes on Donald Trump so badly, and I have no venue. So right now, I'm just dry Trumping.

Stephen Colbert

And of course I don't go anywhere without my pet goldfish, Anthrax. I always tell security I'm carrying Anthrax. Yeah, sure I get a lot of guff about it, but it's a family name; I'm not changing it.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

Thomas Hobbes

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight...

Thomas Love Peacock

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Thomas Jefferson

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

Raymond Williams

It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.

Greta Van Susteren

Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

Gordon B. Hinckley

When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.

Glen Cook

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

Gerd von Rundstedt

Nothing would have been changed for the German people, but my name would have gone down in history as that of the greatest traitor.

Gerard Butler

Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and settled in Scotland and in Ireland. And a lot of them didn't, but they took plenty of us with them - mostly the chicks.

Georgette Heyer

What is your name?" "Again sir, that is no concern of yours." "A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda." ..... "Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. "Has there been an accident?" "Judith," repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. "I prefer Clorinda.

Horace

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

Herman Cain

When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.

Herman Melville

Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

Herb Brooks

The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back.