Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vladimir Lenin

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

Walter Cronkite

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

Virginia Woolf

Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.

Weegee

My name is Weegee. I’m the world’s greatest photographer…

Samuel Beckett

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

Samuel Beckett

Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

Samuel Hahnemann

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

Sally Ride

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

Salman Rushdie

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.

Salman Rushdie

The problem's name is God.

Salman Rushdie

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

W. H. Auden

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

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.

Voltaire

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Voltaire

There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

Voltaire

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

Walter White

Name one thing in this world that is not negotiable.

Walter Scott

Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.

Walter Scott

Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

William S. Burroughs

If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.

Virginia Woolf

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,'' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.