Quotes about names
names scientific-method foundation
The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method. Nathan Myhrvold
names body flesh
I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing. Naima Adedapo
names suffering done
If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears. Miroslav Volf
names leader islam
Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period. Mike Pompeo
names patient schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic. R. D. Laing
names long disrespect
There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect. R. C. Sproul
names pyramids history
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. R. Buckminster Fuller
names parks different
My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different. Psy
names decision president
Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision. Pranab Mukherjee
names america people
America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show. Pierre Salinger
names appearance easy
To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
names democracy
I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. Nelson Mandela
names want use
Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me. Nelson DeMille
names political trying
I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political. Nelly
names iphone car
I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost. Rachel Nichols
names prejudice entering
The Republican front-runner, has made a name for himself in the last months by trafficking prejudice and paranoia. His latest insult is his call to stop all Muslims from entering the United States. Rachel Maddow
names hegemony alternatives
My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated by a sense that the alternatives involve more violence, more repression, more hardship. Niall Ferguson
names people needs
American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.
names white america
As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials. Newt Gingrich
names religion important
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes. Noah Webster
names people important
The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed. Noam Chomsky
names rivers would-be
How funny your name would be if you could follow it back to where the first person thought of saying it, naming himself that, or maybe some other persons thought of it and named that person. It would be like following a river to its source, which would be impossible. Rivers have no source. John Ashbery
names judging able
As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then? Jodi Picoult
names insane nine
It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.
names missing able
And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.
names stage
The stage calls my name. Keegan Allen
names might helping
At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet. Olivia Wilde
names society noblemen
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. Oliver Goldsmith
names soul want
If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
names different wonder
'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. Margaret Atwood
names miracle dumb
No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.
names darkness use
But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries.
names want way
I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.