Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Sam Harris

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

S. E. Hinton

Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would.

S. E. Hinton

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

Ronald Reagan

Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP.

Rumi

Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you.

Roland Barthes

There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.

Susan George

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

Stokely Carmichael

Now you know where I got my name.

Storm Jameson

Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.

Stephen Sondheim

There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.

Stephen Greenblatt

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

Mohammed Morsi

Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.

Paula Patton

If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.

Peter Ustinov

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

Peter Cameron

She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.

Pete Postlethwaite

I couldnt imagine living my life with another name.