Apophthegm Quotes

#1. APOPHTHEGM (A'POPHTHEGM) n.s. remarkable saying; a valuable maxim uttered on some sudden occasion.

Samuel Johnson

#2. I am not throwing away my shot.
I am not throwing away my shot.
I'm just like my country.
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry.
And I am not throwing away my shot.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#3. His power sings to your blood. I witnessed your reaction to him just now. He'll be a king in a few years ... And you'll be his queen.

Kenya Wright

#4. The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

Anne Lamott

#5. Is to bring about for them such a complexity of relations - unless indeed we call it a simplicity! - that the situation has to wind itself up. They want to go back.

Henry James

#6. Within the heart of every boy is an adventurer.

Kevin Leman

#7. I don't want people to remember me going through the motions.

Bobby Rahal

#8. In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.

Laura Bush

#9. They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Finally Abdellahi Moussa Boqor asked, "So why are you doing this?" I paused for a moment, and then the words just came out of my mouth. "It is the will of the soul," I said. "The soul cannot be coerced.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#11. When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.

Marcel Dzama

#12. The evangelicals ... If all they want is gold Cadillacs and sex and so on, no big problem.

Noam Chomsky

#13. There is enough dough in the world to make bread for us all to eat together.

Habeeb Akande