Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.

Mahatma Gandhi

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

Mahatma Gandhi

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

John Adams

The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.

John Adams

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

Jaclyn Smith

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldnt do it, but it was probably the best thing Ive ever done.

Hartley Coleridge

Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood or field: Live ye in peace, and long may ye be free To follow your good minds.

Louise Erdrich

I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.

Margaret Atwood

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

James Madison

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion....

Joe Paterno

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

Joe Gold

I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names.

Joan Jett

It's hard to have a dialogue when you're name-calling.

Jimmie Johnson

I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing.

Jimi Hendrix

Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.

Emma Goldman

Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while.

Emilio Estevez

I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.

Heidi Klum

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

Heidi Klum

I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.

John James Audubon

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

Ralph Chaplin

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

Ralph Abernathy

It's not the name they call you, it's the name you answer to.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Rainer Maria Rilke

It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.

Rachel Weisz

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

Shay Mitchell

I’ve met a few fans from across the world who’ve had my name tattooed on them.

Sharon Van Etten

One day when I have a band I will have a band name, but since it's just me I feel it should just be my name. For me it doesn't make much sense since the music is from me and about me. I haven't ever been in a band.

Mick Jagger

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

Michelle Obama

Because no matter what happened, I had the peace of mind of knowing that all of the chatter, the name-calling, the doubting -\-\ all of it was just noise. It did not define me. It didn’t change who I was. And most importantly, it couldn’t hold me back.

Michael Weatherly

But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece of tape that you stand on is called a mark. I kept correcting them and telling them that my name was Michael and not Mark. They said, 'No, no honey.' I was a little green.