Names Quotes
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I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.
Treat Williams
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The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion.The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small & inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.
Herodotus
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Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.
Richard Widmark
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Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.
Haruki Murakami
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If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics.
Geert Wilders
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She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.
Trenton Lee Stewart
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How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
J. C. Ryle
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Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.
Lao Tzu
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"What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?" She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. "Ummm," she said, keeping her eyes on me. "I don't know." Rogerson did," I told her. "Rogerson knew everything."
Sarah Dessen
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The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.
Ismail Kadare
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Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.
Seth Godin
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Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.
William P. Young
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Who names themselves 'The Situation?' I do not take myself seriously like that - not in the least bit - that would be so pretentious.
Isaiah Mustafa
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
William Shakespeare
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We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Bei Dao became the most well-known name for me because of certain criticism of my work. Bei Dao was the name under which my work was criticized. So I became more well-known under Bei Dao than under the other names.
Bei Dao
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.
William Arnot
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Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?
Paul Keating
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Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.
Joseph Heller
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On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before. And it's a way of essentially saying, I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.
Ethan Zuckerman
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Your name is written on my heart, Lily
Nalini Singh
