Names Quotes
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If you know only the name, you know nothing.
Walter Lewin
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When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.
Haile Gerima
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Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.
Thomas Keating
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Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —
Joanne Rowling
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The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
William Dampier
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I attribute my whole success in life to a rigid observance of the fundamental rule - Never have yourself tattooed with any woman's name, not even her initials.
P. G. Wodehouse
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My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.
Aldrich Ames
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Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.
William Shakespeare
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Frailty, thy name is woman!
William Shakespeare
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When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if somebody thought that tacking on "Hussein" in there would be a killer, then I think they underestimate the American people and the seriousness of the problems we face.
Barack Obama
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The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.
Nadeem Aslam
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We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.
Greg Ginn Black Flag
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Your career you will only hear the drum of setback but it is time to shine! Whatever situation you have been facing - this is the time you have been praying for to shine, to move, to overcome, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ!
T. B. Joshua
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It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.
E. M. Forster
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.
Elayne Boosler
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
William James
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
William Falconer
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The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.
Brian Tracy
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The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame
Walt Frazier
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A skunk by any other name still stinks.
W. A. Criswell
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Viewers all over the world, my prayer partners, whatever situation you are in, be delivered in the mighty name of Jesus Christ! Those who wait upon the LORD shall be delivered!
T. B. Joshua
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There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'
Vance Havner
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People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.
Dakota Fanning