Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Benjamin

It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".

Gail Carriger

Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.

Petrarch

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances

William Shakespeare

JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.

William Shakespeare

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

William Shakespeare

My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

Charlie Chaplin

Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Charles Caleb Colton

With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

John Davidson

The payrolls report would typically be the week's big event, but I think people are having a hard time with the report, because forecasts are all over the place due to confusion about the impact of the hurricanes.

Langdon Neal

Those are federal funds. Maybe there's some confusion ... we control all the funds.

Atharva Veda

TODAY the student-world is tossed in confusion; not only in confusion but in downright insanity. They wear white clothing; but the hearts are still dark.

Vince Carter

We don't have a star like last year. But we don't have the controversy and the confusion either.

Charles de Lint

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

Byron Katie

I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

Barbara Tuchman

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

Sheriff Stankus

Whether it was confusion or an oversight, all I know is everything was looked into and investigated and it was determined the vehicle was not stolen.

Alan Thicke

So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.

Charlotte Bronte

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

Alanis Morissette

That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.

Dave Barry

What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial".

Bryan Fuller

It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.

L. Ron Hubbard

You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.

Bill Rancic

Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

Edward Gorey

Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.

Arthur Rubinstein

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.