Name Quotes
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Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.
Henry Ward Beecher
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You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.
Brenna Yovanoff
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I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.
Amelia Fiona "Minnie" Driver
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Brand is much more than a name or a logo. Brand is everything and everything is brand.
Dan Pallotta
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I found out I'd been signing my name wrong. You know, like with the alphabet they teach you in preschool. But I think I've got it right now.
Vanessa Marano
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For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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I swear his pheromones have my freaking name written on them. They hone in and attack.
Carrie Jones
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Its name-what passes not away.
Lao Tzu
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The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.
Rickey Henderson
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Every plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Jane Austen
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No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.
Marcel Proust
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If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?
Confucius
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Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.
Linda Ronstadt
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On her UNICEF work: I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.
Audrey Hepburn
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It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.
Joseph P. Kennedy III
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Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.
Evan S. Connell
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Roberta, meanwhile, had brown eyes, a pointy chin, and absolutely perfect posture when she sat without fidgeting in a grown-up chair and a clean white dress. With both girls, their parents had hoped for a boy and picked out a name in advance.
Charlie Jane Anders
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I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.
Colonel Sanders
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Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!
Artemas Ward
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The bluebird is well named, for he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail; no North American bird better deserves the name, for no other flashes before our admiring eyes so much brilliant blue.
Arthur Cleveland Bent
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But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word.
Haruki Murakami
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If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.
Wilhelm Rontgen