Catchword Quotes

#1. They had supported him ... for freedom's sake, they would have said; meaning as do all men who mouth that catchword, freedom for themselves and their own class.

Margaret Butler

#2. The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

#3. Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

Frank B. Kellogg

#4. Democracy is just a false idol - a mere catchword and illusion of inferior classes, visionaries and dying civilizations.

H.P. Lovecraft

#5. The spirit of International Geneva is not only a catchword. It stands for Switzerland's commitment to advance international cooperation and dialogue - and we make every effort to ensure that the dynamics of the Geneva spirit are real.

Didier Burkhalter

#6. People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

Agnes Repplier

#7. A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

Wendell Willkie

#8. The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

Nikki Giovanni

#9. Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.

Phyllis McGinley

#10. If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.

William Graham Sumner

#11. Comfort is a powerful sedative.

Samantha Garman

#12. The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#13. I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.

Pat Paulsen

#14. Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

Daniel Defoe

#15. Even when life appears to be going in circles the view is always changing if you are paying attention.

Kevin Peter Hall

#16. I loved working on '90210,' and I liked playing Ozzy because he was different from everybody else. And it was great because I got a great fan base.

Michael Trevino

#17. No matter how many years pass, it means something to a parent when their child needs them. At first, kids need you so much, all you want them to do is grow up so they can do things for themselves. Then you learn. You learn you should have savored every time they reached for you or called your name.

Kristen Ashley

#18. Until Islam can do what Judaism and Christianity have done - question, critique, interpret, and ultimately modernize its holy scripture - it cannot free Muslims from a host of anachronistic and at times deadly beliefs and practices.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#19. The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.

Maria Monk

#20. Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.

Salman Rushdie

#21. If the 70's is the new black......well The Fearless Five through Constellation J is the sound track to the new black!

David J. McMullen

#22. If everyone sweeps their own doorstep, their own neighbourhoods, the world will be a clean, pure and healthy place for life to prosper.

Vishwas Chavan

#23. I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

Joni Mitchell

#24. Dreams are vague and far away. Goals are tangible and achievable.

Robin Roberts

#25. I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.

Tom Bergeron