Top 94 Ferdinand I Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ferdinand I

#1. Fiat justitia et ruant coeli. Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall. See Ferdinand I 320:1.

#2. Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#3. In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#4. I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#5. I have never voted in my life ... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#6. I feel the longer he stays at United the better it is for the club. He's done so much for United you can't imagine him not being here.
(on Sir Alex Ferguson)

Rio Ferdinand

#7. I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

Ferdinand Marcos

#8. Best player? For me, it's Paul Scholes. He'll do ridiculous things in training like say, "You see that tree over there?" - it'll be 40 yards away - "I'm going to hit it". And he'll do it. Everyone at the club considers him the best.

Rio Ferdinand

#9. The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#10. To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#11. I'm almost never serious, and I'm always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I'm like a collection of paradoxes.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#12. Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#13. In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself.

Ferdinand Porsche

#14. I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.

Rio Ferdinand

#15. In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well ... I wasn't entirely alone ... It's not possible to sleep alone ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#16. Suddenly he fell asleep in the candlelight. After a while I got up to look at his face. He slept like everybody else. He looked quite ordinary. There ought to be some mark by which to distinguish good from the bad.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#17. I was rather fond of her, but I was even fonder of my vices, my mania for running away from everywhere in search of God knows what, driven, I suppose, by stupid pride, by a sense of some sort of superiority

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#18. I claim the right not to incriminate myself.

Ferdinand Marcos

#19. I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

Ferdinand Marcos

#20. I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

Ferdinand Porsche

#21. In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in our changing room and it doesn't surprise me because we've got quality in there. If we click and play well like we did in the first half, we can open up any team.

Rio Ferdinand

#22. A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

Ferdinand Mount

#23. Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.

Rio Ferdinand

#24. I wish the storm would make even more of a clatter, I wish the roofs would cave in, that spring would never come again, and that the house would blow down.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#25. Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?

Rio Ferdinand

#26. I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing ... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.

Rio Ferdinand

#27. Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They've talked. They haven't said much. They've gone away. They've grown old, wretched, sluggish, each in some corner of the world.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#28. His temperament is always there to be questioned because he plays on the edge. That is just the way he plays.It is a cliche but if you took that edge away from Wayne he wouldn't be the same player and I would rather have the Wayne Rooney we have now.

Rio Ferdinand

#29. If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

Rio Ferdinand

#30. I've got quite a memory. Engraved in my mind, things are. I can't forget anything ... It's not a sign of intelligence ... Nothing to boast about, memory ... that's just how it is ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#31. When I think now of all the lunatics I knew at Baryton's, I can't help suspecting that the only two manifestations of our innermost being are war and insanity, those two absolute nightmares.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#32. Those people were pushing life and night and day in front of them. Life hides everything from people. Their own noise prevents them from hearing anything else. They couldn't care less. The bigger and taller the city, the less they care. Take it from me. I've tried. It's a waste of time.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#33. If you're in a successful band, you tend to fall into a role. But I'm not remotely laddish. I'm a grown-up. I'm vegan and teetotal. I run 50 miles a week, listening to Franz Ferdinand and the Four Tops at top volume.

Johnny Marr

#34. Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.

Richard Gere

#35. The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.

Ferdinand Magellan

#36. I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.

Ferdinand Porsche

#37. I'm sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne

Rio Ferdinand

#38. People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

Rio Ferdinand

#39. Only in a popular war against France ... do I see a misfortune.

Ferdinand Lassalle

#40. If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.

Mark Strong

#41. My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#42. Me, fer instance," said Rio. "I've learned from me own pa not to belch in front of a lady." He turned to Ferdinand. Then he let out the most tremendous burp Ferdinand had ever heard in his life. "Technically, that was not in front of her, but behind her.

E.W. Clarke

#43. I thought I would be at United for a couple of years, maybe three or four, and then go abroad somewhere. But I just fell in love with Manchester United. I fell in love with winning, fell in love with the history of the club and being part of it was something I could never have imagined.

Rio Ferdinand

#44. I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church

Ferdinand Magellan

#45. If I saw an ugly bird but she was a celebrity, she wouldn't attract me at all.

Rio Ferdinand

#46. I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

Ferdinand Mount

#47. I was reminded as I was reviewing my life, that I have been in too many conflicts, too many wars, political battles, military battles, civil strifes in government. And always one lesson stands out and that is, those whom you fight most passionately often turn out to be your best friends.

Ferdinand Marcos

#48. Sooner or later people are bound to classify you as something. I

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#49. The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese and Spanish explorer

George Washington

#50. I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.

Elliott Smith

#51. I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here.

Rio Ferdinand

#52. Frankly, just between you and me, I'm ending up even worse than I started ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#53. I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.

Ferdinand Foch

#54. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#55. But maybe it's wrong of me to complain ... I'm alive after all ... and I lose an enemy or two every day ... cancer, apoplexy, gluttony ... it's a pleasure the number that pass on! ... I'm not hard to please ... a name! ... another! ... there are good things in life ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#56. I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people ... twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#57. I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way.

Rio Ferdinand

#58. I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#59. Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#60. I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.

Les Ferdinand

#61. I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford.
(on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United)

Rio Ferdinand

#62. I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.

Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

#63. An Immense hatred keeps me alive ... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#64. I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#65. I didn't expect to be dropped by England.

Rio Ferdinand

#66. My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.

Ferdinand Foch

#67. For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

Lemony Snicket

#68. I do not like war, because war happens in the countryside, and the countryside bores me.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#69. My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

Ferdinand Foch

#70. My one and only chicken, bequeathed to me by Robinson, dreaded the noon hour the same as I did, he'd go back in with me. For three weeks the chicken lived with me like that, following me like a dog, clucking constantly, seeing snakes wherever he went. One day of extreme boredom, I ate him.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#71. Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.

Ferdinand Marcos

#72. I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Ferdinand Marcos

#73. I don't believe in courtship, it's a waste of time. If I love the person, I'll tell her right away. But for you, I'll make an exemption: Just love me now, and I will court you forever.

Ferdinand E. Marcos

#74. But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

Ferdinand Lassalle

#75. I cannot refrain from doubting that there exist any genuine realizations of our deepest character except war and illness, those two infinities of nightmare.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#76. I knew there was something that separated me from Ferdinand and the life of the bush about me. And it was because I had no means in my day-to-day life of asserting this difference, of exhibiting my true self, that I fell into the stupidity of exhibiting my things.

V.S. Naipaul

#77. In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.

Karl Ferdinand Braun

#78. Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#79. I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#80. I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.

Ferdinand Marcos

#81. I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger ... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as 'Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest.

Cesar Milstein

#82. I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

Ferdinand Marcos

#83. Welbeck will be the main man and I have no doubt he will flourish. Imagine the pace Arsenal will have when everyone is fit.

Rio Ferdinand

#84. It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

Ferdinand Mount

#85. I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

Ferdinand Mount

#86. Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.

Ferdinand Lassalle

#87. It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#88. Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.

Ferdinand Marcos

#89. That's the way it goes. You can't deny it, men have a hard time doing all that's demanded of them: butterflies in their youth, maggots at the end. I

Louis-Ferdinand Celine