Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Alexander

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

Tariq Ramadan

Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.

Susan Sontag

I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

Ray Comfort

The Gospel comes in power and the Holy Spirit, with much assurance. If you call upon the name of the Lord, God will transform you on the inside, give you the shock of your life, and give you everlasting life on top of that.

Rem Koolhaas

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

Richard Branson

With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set out to try to find an engineer or rocket scientist in the world who could build a safe, reusable rocket that could take people to and from space and we could start a whole new era of commercial space travel.

Richard Branson

You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products.

Swami Vivekananda

When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.

Swami Vivekananda

Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.

Swami Vivekananda

Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.

Swami Vivekananda

Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.

Swami Vivekananda

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

Swami Vivekananda

Differentiation is in name and form only.

Swami Vivekananda

What is this universe but name and form?

Swami Vivekananda

Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.

Swami Vivekananda

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.

Tiny Tim

I hope I dont give music a bad name.

Tina Yothers

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

Thorstein Veblen

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

Roger Pilon

[T]he vast regulatory structure the federal government has erected in the name of the commerce power cannot be ended overnight, in many cases, but the pretense that such programs are constitutional can be ended, even as the programs themselves are phased out over time.

Rush Limbaugh

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

Rush Limbaugh

If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that's when you become the enemy.

Thomas Merton

Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

Thomas Merton

There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.

Thomas Carlyle

Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

Thomas Carlyle

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

Tony Campolo

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

Tom Waits

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

Tom Waits

All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes

Tom Waits

There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine.

Steven Erikson

Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.

Steve McNair

It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair.