Etymologically Quotes

#1. The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.

Valentina Tereshkova

#2. MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. I don't think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We are demanding that we just be given the things that are rightfully ours and that we're not looking for anything else.

Jackie Robinson

#4. The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#5. Remorse, etymologically, is the action of biting again: that's what the feeling does to you. Imagine the strength of the bite when I reread my words. They seemed like some ancient curse I had forgotten even uttering.

Julian Barnes

#6. We just say things differently in Australia - like torch. I'd ask, 'Can I have the torch?' It seems to fall flat when I say, 'Can I have the flashlight?'

Anna Torv

#7. Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

Susan Sontag

#8. Realist saboteurs do not, as a rule, enjoy long careers. Everyone gets caught eventually.

Peter Watts

#9. The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.

John Perry Barlow

#10. If there's one thing I really love ... it's sad music.

Danny Elfman

#11. Etymologically, a disaster is a bad star.

Marilynne Robinson

#12. The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition ... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

Clarence John Laughlin

#13. The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained.

Salman Rushdie

#14. Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.

Ryan Phillippe

#15. Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends' secret places.

Tana French

#16. A hard head will make a soft behind.

Angela Khristin Brown

#17. Michelle, I think it's time you came back to New York with me.

Faith Sullivan

#18. Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God ... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.

George William Foote