Quotes about names
names identity care
The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which. R. A. Salvatore
names i-can horrific
You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it. Quentin Tarantino
names people choices
I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now. Prince William
names reverence-for-life ive-changed
Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life. Prince
names jehovah knows
When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.
names rocks tree
But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name. Pocahontas
names parent suffering
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother. Pliny the Elder
names perfect doubt
The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This is shown first of all by the name of 'orb' which is bestowed upon it by the general consent of mankind. ...Our eyesight also confirms this belief, because the firmament presents the aspect of a concave hemisphere equidistant in every direction, which would be impossible in the case of any other figure."
names touching peaches
As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
names return favour
Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all that the rich must help, respect and promote the poor. I exhort you to generous solidarity and a return of economics and finance to an ethical approach which favours human beings. Pope Francis
names lines scrutinize
There should be a separate line to scrutinize anybody with the name Abdul or Ahmed or Mohammed. Mike Gallagher
names white black
Your first name's white, your second is Hispanic, and your third belongs to a black. No wonder you don't know who you are. Mickey Rivers
names common-sense common
What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in? Nathaniel Hawthorne
names goal path
Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal. Mohammed Morsi
names america magic
Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
names actresses lucky
If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky. Paula Patton
names weakness human-nature
That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength. Peter Ustinov
names judging tongue
My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman,” it said. “I’ll be the judge of that,” warned Granny, and added, “Don’t call me woman.” “Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz,” said the demon smugly. Terry Pratchett
names salad halfway
Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.
names said rincewind
My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.
names people legs
People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.
names luck mind
Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.
names alzheimers people
Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it
names humanity arts-and-humanities
The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. Terry Eagleton
names long doe
Richard started to walk away. Zedd called his name. He stopped and turned. Just be glad she cares for you as much as she does. If she didn't, she might have touched you." Richard stared back at him a long moment. "I'm afraid, in a way, she already has. Terry Goodkind
names mirrors fiction
You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath Tennessee Williams
names house household
Probably not even a household name in his own house. Teddy Atlas
names cliffs parenthood
Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee. Ted Yoho
names progress evolve
Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve. Randeep Hooda
names self-reliance good-and-bad
Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this. Ralph Waldo Emerson
names action should
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
names may morality
There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
names risk pieces
When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.