Quotes about name
names generic-name government
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution. Aristotle
names important disgrace
Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it. Ben Hogan
names hollywood thirty
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. Ben Hecht
names luck
Indeed there's a woundy luck in names. Ben Jonson
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Let's not make this a black-and-white issue. It's just a name change. E. O. Wilson
names origin secondary
Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story. Gail Carriger
named sings
My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace. Brendon Urie
name understand
We have Longfellow and Whittier. I don't understand why we don't' name one after one of our own writers.
names people nuclear-missiles
It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping". Walter Benjamin
names heritage reform
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
names determined equations
The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully. Aleister Crowley
names holy-grail quests
The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.
names atheism force
The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.
names people advice
Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names. Alex Ferguson
names giving people
My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited. Aldrich Ames
names agents goes-on
I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.
names grace development
The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution. Aldo Leopold
names ghost only-time
Only times and places, only names and ghosts. Aldous Huxley
names iliad ifs
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
names prejudice looks
One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.
names culture purpose
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
names looking-good adam
My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire. Adam Sandler
names achievement remember
Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.
names feelings internet
You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it. Adam Carolla
name spirit
There's really not that much difference between you and I. And my name really doesn't matter. Hopefully, my heart and my spirit matters to you. Hopefully. Ving Rhames
names pet would-be
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy. Alexander Theroux
names fire heaven
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth. Aberjhani
names needs actors
You've got to do the big studio movies to get your name, but as an actor and for your own well-being you kind of need to step back from that occasionally and do the smaller films. In the end, that's what helps you learn and makes you a better actor. A. J. Cook
names causes littles
I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause. A. J. Jacobs
names justice democracy
Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy. A. Philip Randolph
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To be beautiful in Texas, you had to be blonde and blue-eyed and have a name like Ann. Sarah Shahi
names people attention
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner. Abdolkarim Soroush
names owl bears
And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are. A. A. Milne