Names Quotes - Page 149

The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult as it is for a man to conceive what a first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it, from the tenfold greater difficulty of disbelieving it. It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.

I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.

The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.

The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change

When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.

I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.

We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

I'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president.

Mao Tse Tung lives and his name is Barack Hussein Obama. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up.

I feel quite confident there will never be a plane on the face of the Earth with my name on it.

Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce

What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for name and fame and covers his efforts to obtain them with the enamel of charity and good works. He is working for himself under the pretext of working for others. Every so-called charity is an encouragement of the very evil it claims to operate against.

Differentiation is in name and form only.

What is this universe but name and form?

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

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.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead.

So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck," says Peeta.

Mahar-jji used to say 'wherever the Satsang gets together, I am there', kind of echoing Jesus' statement: wherever two or more of you get together in my name, I am there. So Maharaj-ji was a universal part of the spirit in that way. He's always with me, here. He's with whoever is with him. Not only just me.

Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.

Now you know where I got my name.

There's only one true king of rock 'n' roll. His name is Chuck Berry.

Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.

I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him And will salute him forever.