Quotes about names
names numbers giving
Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within. Thomas Merton
names evil people
There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.
names hands might
Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might. Thomas Carlyle
names doe poet
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
names people evil
It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God. Tony Campolo
names musical chicago
Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name. Tom Waits
names sound donuts
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
names arms next
There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine.
names forgotten moments
Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living. Steven Erikson
names tradition family-tradition
It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair. Steve McNair
names people african-american
We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black? Spike Lee
names twelve call-me
I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy. Sigourney Weaver
names unfair checks
It seems unfair that anyone can set up on Twitter using my name, or the name of any famous person, without any checks at all. Shirley Eaton
names done motion-pictures
I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name. Shirley Jones
names ridiculous tricks
Trick names are so ridiculous! Shaun White
names strange ability
It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous. Shahrukh Khan
names google internet
The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed. Sergey Brin
names century made
Our names were made for us in another century. Richard Brautigan
names people faces
If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognize you. Richard Branson
names reputation brand-names
Your brand name is only as good as your reputation
names shapes want
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox. Rem Koolhaas
names enjoy-life challenges
I just like to enjoy life and push myself. Of course, there is method to my madness. When you are entering into a new industry, for example, it helps to do something to get your name on the front pages.
names people mind
All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you.
names space people
With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set out to try to find an engineer or rocket scientist in the world who could build a safe, reusable rocket that could take people to and from space and we could start a whole new era of commercial space travel.
names people products
You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products.
names body needs
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage. Swami Vivekananda
names space form
Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.
names ideas clay
Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.
names heaven doctrine
Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.
names substance plus
Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.
names differentiation form
Differentiation is in name and form only.
names form universe
What is this universe but name and form?
names giving desire
Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.