Niall Quotes

#1. I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss.

Niall Horan

#2. Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Niall Williams

#3. ...She squeezed Niall's hand and bleakly said, "I don't want you hurt."
"Oh, Serena, that's all I have to know." And with that, he kissed her so passionately, she felt as though she had fae transported to the moon and back...

Terry Spear

#4. So the cluviel dor was a test of Eric's sincerity, in Niall's eyes. And the cluviel dor was a test of my love for Eric, in Eric's eyes," I said. "And we both failed the test.

Charlaine Harris

#5. Known to the Chinese as 'Iron-Headed Old Rat

Niall Ferguson

#6. It's a blindness thing, faith.

Niall Williams

#7. Everyone gets that second album syndrome.

Niall Horan

#8. As early as 1975 she had come up with a wonderful line about the Labour Party: They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

Niall Ferguson

#9. I don't know, it's odd that girls ask if they can hug me. Don't ask, do it. I'm just a regular guy

Niall Horan

#10. In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.

Niall Ferguson

#11. I want a girlfriend who eats as much as I do, which is a lot.

Niall Horan

#12. With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this.

Niall FitzGerald

#13. There's always pressure on the second album - this one has to be the big one.

Niall Horan

#14. It's more than music: It's light. It's love. It's life." - (Niall Logan)

Susan Moore Jordan

#15. Ianto lying on his back in the bog. Snake-silent and lizard-still.

Niall Griffiths

#16. Don't mess with our fans or we'll come and find you.

Niall Horan

#17. I'm not perfect.
Never have been.
Never will be.

~ Louis Tomlinson

Louis Tomlinson

#18. The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.

Niall Ferguson

#19. I just had an out-of-body experience. Niall Stella just took off my shirt and admired my chest." "Do you need to text someone?

Christina Lauren

#20. Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.

Niall Ferguson

#21. Give it up for Harry Pottery

Niall Horan

#22. I like anything that's edible ...

Niall Horan

#23. I love with the heart not the eyes.

Niall Horan

#24. Today, banking assets (that is, loans) in the world's major economies are equivalent to around 150 per cent of those countries' combined GDP.

Niall Ferguson

#25. You are a strange man, Mr. Poe." "So I've been told," Edgar said. "I'd rather be strange than boring. It's a flaw in my character.

David Niall Wilson

#26. I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

Niall Ferguson

#27. Being single doesn't mean you're weak, it means that you're strong enough to wait for the right person.

Niall Horan

#28. I want to live forever! I want to learn how to fly high!

Niall Horan

#29. I'm a little bit of a gypsy myself. I've always had jobs where I'm moving around and I'm not sure what's going to happen tomorrow or the next day.

Niall Matter

#30. In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England.

Niall Ferguson

#31. I'm a math genius!" - Niall "675 books plus 350 books equals?" - Louis "...A Library! Ask harder questions Lou!" - Niall

Jessica Stewart

#32. I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe's PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it's America.

Niall Ferguson

#33. Fair warning, baby. I'm in the mood for a fight, and I wouldn't play fair or nice.--Niall Hunter to Khloe Richardson

Naima Simone

#34. I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect people don't exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.

Niall Horan

#35. I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history.

Niall Ferguson

#36. I'm the most carefree mo'fo' in the world.

Niall Horan

#37. One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers.

Niall Ferguson

#38. Would you like to depress anyone else?

Niall Horan

#39. sleep till your hungry, eat till you sleep

Niall Horan

#40. My father revisited Moby a lot. Maybe it's because there's no other novel in the whole world that better captures the Impossible Standard.

Niall Williams

#41. one of Chloe's models 'as gone down wif leprosy . . ."
"Wait," interrupted Niall. "Leprosy?"
"That's what Chlo said. That fing wif your throat where you can't talk."
"That's laryngitis.

Alexis Hall

#42. The basis of the Philosophy of Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. ( ... ) The Philosophy allows for only one result: we fail the Standard.

Niall Williams

#43. We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.

Niall Ferguson

#44. There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

Niall Ferguson

#45. In the Philippines, formalizing home ownership was until recently a 168-step process involving fifty-three public and private agencies and taking between thirteen and twenty-five years.

Niall Ferguson

#46. Currency peg can mean higher volatility in short-term interest rates, as the central bank seeks to keep the price of its money steady in terms of the peg. It can mean deflation, if the supply of the peg is constrained (as the supply of gold was relative to the demand for it in the 1870s and 1880s).

Niall Ferguson

#47. Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.

Alex Pareene

#48. I, the British Empire began as a primarily economic phenomenon, its growth powered by commerce and consumerism. The demand for sugar drew merchants tot he carribean. British were not the first Empire builders. They were IMERIAL IMMITATORS!

Niall Ferguson

#49. I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Niall Ferguson

#50. You know I'll be
Your Life
Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
My Love
My Heart
Is Breathing For this
Moment in Time
I'll Find the words to say
Before You leave me Today

One Direction

#51. Figures must be adjusted downwards to take account of the cost of living, which has risen by a factor of nearly seven in my lifetime.

Niall Ferguson

#52. Inflation', wrote Milton Friedman in a famous definition, 'is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it cannot occur without a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.

Niall Ferguson

#53. I have three kids in Britain, and I am there at least once a month.

Niall Ferguson

#54. We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.

Niall Williams

#55. There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all.

Niall Williams

#56. That I was in love with Niall Stella was only a secret in theory. He knew it, I knew it.

Christina Lauren

#57. When you first open Niall [Horan]'s wallet, the first thing you see is a picture of Justin Bieber and a picture of us.

Liam Payne

#58. agencies began to downgrade scores of RMBS CDOs (short for 'residential mortgage-backed security collateralized debt obligations', the very term testifying to the over-complex nature of these products).

Niall Ferguson

#59. What are you going to do? What do you want to do?" she prompted.
"I'm going to go try to help Niall. He's not acting like himself, and I have a theory on what's wrong," he told her. "Then afterward I'm going to ask you to marry me.

Melissa Marr

#60. I was starstruck by Michelle Obama. She's an amazing-looking lady, and I'm a massive Barack Obama fan anyway.

Niall Horan

#61. News of the Indian Mutiny had taken forty-six days to reach London in 1857, travelling at an effective speed of 3.8 miles an hour. News of the huge Nobi earthquake in Japan in 1891 took a single day, travelling at 246 miles an hour, sixty-five times faster.50

Niall Ferguson

#62. Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that there can be such a thing as family and we can all live for some time at least in the same house. Normal is what you know.

Niall Williams

#63. Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#64. I will keep you safe- from them and from me.

Melissa Marr

#65. Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

Niall Williams

#66. If I was in a horrorfilm I'd die first, because I would have no idea what's going on.

Niall Horan

#67. Words will be just words, till you bring them to life.

Niall Horan

#68. If it were legal, I'd marry food.

Niall Horan

#69. The thinkers in their youth are almost always very lonely creatures. . . . The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself least lonely, most positively furthered and most richly fed. - WILLIAM JAMES1

Niall Ferguson

#70. And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.

Melissa Marr

#71. The 1789 Revolution had given the French a political script of unequalled drama. For the better part of the following century the temptation to reenact the play was irresistible.

Niall Ferguson

#72. I'd be rather be a kid and play with paper planes than be a man and play with a woman's heart.

Niall Horan

#73. The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.

Niall Ferguson

#74. The idea was to reinvent mortgages by bundling thousands of them together as the backing for new and alluring securities that could be sold as alternatives to traditional government and corporate bonds - in short, to convert mortgages into bonds.

Niall Ferguson

#75. I need to check in with Seth before I
" he burrowed his face into the side of her neck, his breath almost painfully warm on her throat
"give in to my unconscionable desire to put my hands on you properly.

Melissa Marr

#76. Some things, most things in my experience, are more vivid when you haven't seen them,

Niall Williams

#77. There were families everywhere, loose loud chains of them wandering down the streets, in and out of shops, young children with rings of ice-cream round their mouths and saddles of freckles across their noses.

Niall Williams

#78. When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

Niall Ferguson

#79. Without easy credit creation a true bubble cannot occur. That is why so many bubbles have their origins in the sins of omission or commission of central banks.

Niall Ferguson

#80. It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

Niall Ferguson

#81. the medieval contract known as the census, which allowed one party to buy a stream of annual payments from another.

Niall Ferguson

#82. Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

Niall Ferguson

#83. I'd rather be a boy and play with paper airplanes, then be a man and play with a woman's heart. -Niall Horan

One Direction

#84. You have to think outside the box! Can you imagine One Direction and Eminem?! That would be hilarious.

Niall Horan

#85. The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between the present generation and future generations.

Niall Ferguson

#86. The success of a civilization is measured not just in its aesthetic achievements but also, and surely more importantly, in the duration and quality of life of its citizens.

Niall Ferguson

#87. Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined. In 2008 alone is really inventors applied to register 9591 new patents. The equivalent figure for Iran was 50 and for all majority Muslim countries in the world with 5657.

Niall Ferguson

#88. We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?

Niall Horan

#89. An increase in the supply of paper money, and hence a decrease in the purchasing power of the currencies in which most bonds were denominated. A rational investor who anticipated a major war would sell bonds in anticipation of these effects.

Niall Ferguson

#90. And in just this way the days after my father's death became weeks became months in the familiar ceaseless cruelty of time, carrying us ever forward even when we sit still. Time does not pass, pain grows. (p.223)

Niall Williams

#91. Japan. So successful was the Japanese 'welfare superpower' that by the 1970s life expectancy in Japan had become the longest in the world. But that, combined with a falling birth rate, has produced the world's oldest society, with more than 21 per cent of the population already over the age of 65.

Niall Ferguson

#92. I'm the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes.

Niall Horan

#93. I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart.

Niall Horan

#94. The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that will genuinely address problems of poverty and educational underachievement.

Niall Ferguson

#95. The result is one of the greatest paradoxes of modern history: that an economic system designed to offer infinite choice to the individual has ended up homogenizing humanity.

Niall Ferguson

#96. The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

Niall Ferguson

#97. A man and his dog goes so well with home and castle.

Ian Niall

#98. No one can know the future, least of all, a historian, whose business is the past.

Niall Ferguson

#99. Louis's feet smell the worst. Literally like dog poo on a stick-that bad!

Niall Horan

#100. Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

Niall Williams