Top 100 Niall's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. ...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
#3. In the 1990s the world's population for the first time exceeded six billion, more than three times what it had been when the First World War broke out.
Niall Ferguson
#4. If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them.
Melissa Marr
#5. You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.
Niall Ferguson
#6. Was already different because I was a twin. Funny how you can say that: I am a twin. Not I am one of twins, but I actually am A Twin. Like there's two of me all the time, this other one right here beside me whether you can see him or not. Or as if you're saying, I'm a Half.
Niall Williams
#7. His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them
Maggie Stiefvater
#8. I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.
Niall Horan
#9. If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.
Niall Ferguson
#10. The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.
Niall Ferguson
#11. The way the money was spent ensured that Spain's newfound wealth provided the entire continent with a monetary stimulus.
Niall Ferguson
#12. Financially, I'm certainly not a rich man. I spent half my savings just to get on this ship, and by the time we drop anchor in Callao I'll have less than $2k to my name. At 31 years of age, that's nothing to boast about. But I can't say I'm all that worried.
Niall Doherty
#13. I think there's nothing wrong with eating all the time. At least i'm not doing anything illegal.
Niall Horan
#14. Doing nothing at all is often the very wisest thing ... as the world is a ball and is turning and everything is in fact in motion all the time, doing nothing is not really doing nothing, it's allowing things to mover at their own pace
Niall Williams
#15. What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up.
Niall Ferguson
#16. It's just impossible to believe I've become good friends with some stars like Justin Bieber. I would call Justin a friend, someone I hang out with. It's really weird.
Niall Horan
#17. Dad was always awkward in scenes like this. He was a Swain and Swains are not for joining in. They're not part of the General Population somehow. There's
Niall Williams
#18. All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.
Niall Ferguson
#19. But if there's one sure way not to forget something it's to say Forget That.
Niall Williams
#20. Katy Perry still gets me every time. She's very funny in person! We met at the Teen Choice Awards and she pulled my cheeks apart and told me how cute I was. My life was literally flashing before my eyes!
Niall Horan
#21. I hate it when girls act stupid 'cause they think it's cute. Intelligence is sexy.
Niall Horan
#22. All writers are waiting for replies. That's what I've learned. Maybe all human beings are
Niall Williams
#23. A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!
Niall Horan
#24. One time, Niall sat on the floor for hours trying to find a way of putting his M&M's in alphabetical order.
Louis Tomlinson
#25. It's not surprising so many people end up with credit-card debts. Saving for your retirement and buying a house are difficult things, and we don't educate people about them at all.
Niall Ferguson
#26. There's no fans like sci-fi fans, and everyone in the world knows that. So, to have the support of sci-fi fans is one of the most incredible feelings that an actor can actually ever experience in his career.
Niall Matter
#27. Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.
Niall Horan
#28. My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.
Niall Ferguson
#29. She flashed upon his life with an electric energy, shattering every day's effort at work and leaving a kind of glimmering burning feeling all day and night around the edges of his heart.
Niall Williams
#30. Although the court recognizes his right to insist on his bond - to claim his pound of flesh - the law also prohibits him from shedding Antonio's blood.
Niall Ferguson
#31. I love the feel of a book. I love the touch and smell and sound of the pages. I love the handling. A book is a sensual thing. You sit in a chair with it or like me you take it to bed and it's, well, enveloping. Weird I am, I know(...)You either get it or you don't.
Niall Williams
#32. Maybe it's not about being worthy, or what you have to offer. If it was, wouldn't everyone be turned away?" -Niall
Brittany L. Engels
#33. Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.
Niall Ferguson
#34. Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we fall together in that moment of tenderest perception when we see and feel each other's wounds and know another's sorrow like a brother of our own.
Niall Williams
#37. The light's hot, everything's hot, I'm hot.
Niall Horan
#38. 'Ted' made me nearly cry. It's kind of like 'Marley and Me.'
Niall Horan
#39. The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.
Niall Ferguson
#40. Let's go crazy, crazy, crazy 'til we see the sun. I know we only met but lets pretend its love. And never, never, never stop for anyone. Tonight lets get some and live when we're young!
One Direction
#41. Can a non-Western power really hope to benefit from downloading Western scientific knowledge, if it continues to reject that other key part of the West's winning formula: the third institutional innovation of private property rights, the rule of law and truly representative government?
Niall Ferguson
#42. Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa.
Eamon Dunphy
#43. The Crusades, like the conquests that followed, were as much about overcoming Europe's monetary shortage as about converting heathens to Christianity.14
Niall Ferguson
#44. Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the middle path with a dog at their heels, their lives enriched by giving the dog a dog's life.
Ian Niall
#45. I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's what a house costs. And I was thinking, "How can it be?" And I was thinking, "What am I doing? Am I going to be Niall Ferguson, that horrible man?
Jamaica Kincaid
#46. Irish people will read anything as long as it's about them. That's what I think. We are our own greatest subject and though we've gone and looked elsewhere about the world we have found that there are just no people, no subject as fascinating as We Ourselves.
Niall Williams
#47. Irial!"
"Still here." Irial didn't open his eyes, but he smiled a little.
"You're an ass," Niall said, but he kept his hands on Irial's chest so that he could feel both pulse and breath.
"You too, Gancanagh," Irial murmured.
Melissa Marr
#48. Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon's "Imagine." What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.
Niall Ferguson
#50. There's a book inside you. There's a library inside me.
Niall Williams
#51. The world is more outlandish than some people's imaginations.
Niall Williams
#53. 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
#54. There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.
Niall Ferguson
#55. We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.
Niall Ferguson
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England.
Niall Ferguson
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. It's more than music: It's light. It's love. It's life." - (Niall Logan)
Susan Moore Jordan
#67. There's always pressure on the second album - this one has to be the big one.
Niall Horan
#68. I want a girlfriend who eats as much as I do, which is a lot.
Niall Horan
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Everyone gets that second album syndrome.
Niall Horan
#76. 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
#77. Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
One Direction
#78. Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide.
Niall Quinn
#79. The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.
Niall Ferguson
#80. The truth is boys can fall deeper in love than girls, they're a lot bigger and heavier and they can fall much further and harder and when they hit the ground of reality there's just this terrible splosh that some other woman is going to have to come long and try to put back into the bottle.
Niall Williams
#81. Between the emotion and the response falls the shadow, T.S. Eliot said,
Niall Williams
#82. Transcendence is the business of poets. That's what they're for. They're not like you and me. They have that extra bit that's always ready for take-off. Poets understand why God didn't give us wings: he wanted entertainment. He wanted us to aspire, to ascend. He wanted poetry. My
Niall Williams
#83. the Bank's proper role in a crisis as the 'lender of last resort', to lend freely, albeit at a penalty rate, to combat liquidity crises.42
Niall Ferguson
#84. You are my queen. I've spent nine centuries seeking the mortal who would free this court, who would save my best friend's son, who would save the lives of the rest of the girls who were not you. I'd die before I'd allow harm to you. He bowed his head.
Melissa Marr
#85. it was said to be 'hardly in the power of liquor to affect Dr Webster's understanding or his limbs'. Yet no one was more sober when it came to calculations of life expectancy.
Niall Ferguson
#86. Some S&Ls bet their depositors' money on highly dubious projects. Many simply stole it, as if deregulation meant that the law no longer applied to them.
Niall Ferguson
#87. Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it's definitely a Thing with Claws.
Niall Williams
#88. You're not weak at all. Wounded, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.
Melissa Marr
#89. I think our fans are a bit like us - they're very fun, like to have a laugh, like to party. I think that's what comes across on our album as well. It's very fun. It's music that you could play at a party, but it also deals with teenage relationships.
Niall Horan
#90. We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right.
Niall Ferguson
#91. Louis's feet smell the worst. Literally like dog poo on a stick-that bad!
Niall Horan
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. If I was in a horrorfilm I'd die first, because I would have no idea what's going on.
Niall Horan
#100. I was starstruck by Michelle Obama. She's an amazing-looking lady, and I'm a massive Barack Obama fan anyway.
Niall Horan
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