Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Philip Pullman

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all. Let only that little be left of my will whereby I may feel thee on every side, and come to thee in everything, and offer to thee my love every moment. Let only that little be left of me whereby I may never hide thee. Let only that little of my fetters be left whereby I am bound with thy will, and thy purpose is carried out in my life--and that is the fetter of thy love.

Teddy Atlas

Probably not even a household name in his own house.

Ted Yoho

Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

Randeep Hooda

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

Scott Lynch

I can’t name the poison that’s killing your friend. But the one that’s killing you is called hope.

Scott Lynch

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

Seth

Micro trends matter more than macro ones, but most of all, people matter. Individual human beings with names and wants and interests.

Leonard Little

Some people meet me sometimes and they sit down and talk to me for a while and ask me my name and say, 'Oh, you're the guy'.

Lee Krasner

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Laura Riding

Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.'... A question of the moment is, indeed, a substitute for some notion, such as the idea of God, or hereditary monarchy, or national glory, that has hitherto acted as a symbol of human co-ordination. It provides no new positive certainty to replace the discredited certainty, but is what the name implies: the raising of a question which the old certainty no longer answers.

Lactantius

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

Kylie Minogue

What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.