Names Quotes - Page 238

Indiana,’ he said. ‘They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes?

But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!

It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

I heard Katty Kay's name and I know Katty Kay said we didn't have a plan. Well, there is a plan, and the President [Barack Obama] is moving forward with any number of options and ways to augment our efforts on ISIL.

There's always an asterisk behind somebody's name who hasn't won the Super Bowl. There shouldn't be, but that's kind of the way history works.

Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in some measure imperfect. What consolation is it for us to learn, that, not until we are along with him, does he possess all his parts, or wish to be regarded as complete! Hence, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, when the apostle discusses largely the metaphor of a human body, he includes under the single name of Christ the whole Church.

It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

It's been said that commitment is another name for success.

Acting careers dont come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".

I knew that Weird Girl was going to be kind of amazing. The secret truth of Weird Girl is that I put her in there originally because I needed some way to set the boys' names.

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.

To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.

What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.