Byword Quotes

#1. In fact , we might as well say "proprietary", which ,in fact, was the byword of the old computer industry.

Andrew S. Grove

#2. If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.

John Lancaster Spalding

#3. From his childhood on he had had an obstinate nature and his name became a byword for virtue and truthfulness. "That's incredible, even if Cato says so," was a common expression.

Anthony Everitt

#4. Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

Peter Wilson

#5. America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas of the Founding Fathers, went on to become a beacon to all the oppressed and poor of the world.

Ronald Reagan

#6. The history of representations of Cleopatra provides one of the clearest instances of the conviction that whiteness is the pinnacle of human beauty. Cleopatra became a byword for feminine beauty in European culture, but in the process she had to be represented as white. As

Richard Dyer

#7. But even in your world it's a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds ... get a Mother.

Diane Duane

#8. Escape is the byword - forwards, backwards, or sideways - into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today

Peter Marshall

#9. What did they know about you? I know you.

Margaret Mitchell

#10. If the world stands in between a man and the woman he loves, he will set out to conquer it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. Honestly, I don't aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting ... Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.

Dave Bautista

#12. But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

Benjamin Franklin

#14. After a couple hours with a difficult and noncompliant patient, I sometimes felt a buzzing in my ear. Was my job sucking the life out of me? How did this person get on my schedule?

Adele Levine

#15. I couldn't swallow. It had to be wrong. We had to be able to rewind. It couldn't be real. It felt so weightless. It felt like an idea, a particle of dust floating around in the air that hadn't landed yet.

Cristina Henriquez

#16. These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.

Bob Filner

#17. Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

Todd Gitlin