Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich August von Hayek

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people

Friedrich Schiller

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Friedrich Schiller

Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.

George Friedman

If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The fancy name for this is constraint theory. It's a nonquantitative model, but it's a field of mathematics.

George Foreman

Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.

Jon Ronson

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

Jon Meacham

President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.

Jon Landau

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

Joko Beck

Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.

John Yoo

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

Johnny Carson

Air Canada. That's a good name for a Canadian airline.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Elementary propositions consist of names.

Lucan

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Louis Pasteur

These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile in prospects and findings of the highest importance. The names of these organisms are very numerous and will have to be defined and in part discarded. The word microbe which has the advantage of being shorter and carrying a more general meaning, and of having been approved by my illustrious friend, M. Littré, the most competent linguist in France, is one we will adopt.

Lord Byron

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

Lord Acton

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing

John Christopher

And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

John Brunner

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

M. Scott Peck

I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked tail than God has a long white beard. Even the name, Satan, is just a name we have given to something basically nameless.

Luther Allison

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

Louise Brooks

After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

John Cena

Kickin', ass takin' names, cashing checks, and breakin necks, the champ is here.

John Bonham

My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.

John Boyle O'Reilly

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

These are new names that will be stepping into different roles.

And so with all things: names were vital and important.

James F. Cooper

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

James F. Cooper

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.

James Cook

Government regulators are another name for police.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

Orson Welles

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

Octavio Paz

...because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source. There is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of two in a single body, a single soul, oh total being...

Norton Juster

Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.