Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

P. G. Wodehouse

I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.

P. G. Wodehouse

I attribute my whole success in life to a rigid observance of the fundamental rule - Never have yourself tattooed with any woman's name, not even her initials.

P. G. Wodehouse

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

Ovid

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Never name the well from which you will not drink.

Patrick Kavanagh

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Pam Grier

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

Justin Amash

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.

There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences.

Julia Phillips

Remember to negotiate thickness as well as height on the lettering of your name.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.

Julia Quinn

Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.

Judd Apatow

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

Lisi Harrison

Is my name V? No... Then why would I follow U?

Little Richard

It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

Little Richard

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

Nelson DeMille

Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.

Nelly

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

Rachel Nichols

I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

Rachel Maddow

The Republican front-runner, has made a name for himself in the last months by trafficking prejudice and paranoia. His latest insult is his call to stop all Muslims from entering the United States.

Niall Ferguson

My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated by a sense that the alternatives involve more violence, more repression, more hardship.

Niall Ferguson

American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.

Newt Gingrich

As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.

Noah Webster

Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

Noam Chomsky

The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed.