Names Quotes - Page 17

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus!

You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.

The first step into the realm of giving is...not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day.

Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name.

Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

Delirium: 'What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?' Dream: 'There isn't one.' Delirium: 'Oh. I thought maybe there was.'

I play Peeta. That's his name. It was given to him by his parents. He comes from a long line of bread. His sister is Rye. And his brother is Whole Wheat.

We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the name. We might also get used to recognizing the fact that there is some of the saint in all of us.

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, 'You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.'

Do the things you believe in, in the name of love. And know that, you aren't alone. We all have doubts and fears.

You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for.

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name