Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Plato

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

Philip Treacy

I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em.

Philip Zimbardo

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

Mary E. Pearson

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

Martin Scorsese

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.

Lee Ann Womack

The one who actually decided that I should keep my name was my manager, Erv Woolsey.

LeBron James

When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.

Laverne Cox

You need names to get the movie made.

Lance Armstrong

At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.

Lance Armstrong

I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.

Laini Taylor

As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough

Johnny Depp

Pretty much any drug you can name, I've done it.

John Travolta

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.

John Stuart Mill

A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

John Shelby Spong

The demolishment of the power of organized Christianity in the Western world to finally realize the emancipation of women and give them the vote in 1920. Women couldn't even own property in their own names until the last quarter of the 19th century in America.

John Rawls

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.

James Howe

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

James Joyce

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

James Joyce

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

John Piper

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

John Piper

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

Martin Luther

He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.

Martin Luther

But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.

Marilu Henner

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

Nick Lowe

I use the name and the thought very, very easily as a sort of comfort - as a kind of comfort, in some way. And in that way, it's just like having a friend, I suppose.

Nick Cave

The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.

Mortimer Adler

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Missi Pyle

The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot of premieres, and, regardless of whether or not you're a celebrity, you still get to walk down the red carpet and then have everyone sort of screaming your name. The pictures never get printed anywhere, but they are nonetheless taking your picture.

Philip Sidney

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

Petra Kelly

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

Peter Drucker

A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.

Peg Bracken

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.