Name Quotes
7649 Name quotes by 4442 unique authors
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We have names for everything. What if we forgot about those names? And we stopped seeing things as something? What if we just observed things,…
— Robert Adams
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I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Cuts to defense budgets are already underway...there is now a lot of emphasis starting with the President that we have to build up our capabilities…
— Unknown Author
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I said to my husband, 'Why don't you call out my name when we're making love?' He said, 'I don't want to wake you up.'
— Joan Rivers
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Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."
— Paulo Coelho
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Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea…
— Richard Selzer
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Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name…
— Noah Webster
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Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a…
— Thomas Paine
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False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the…
— Frederick William Robertson
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In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they…
— Joseph Story
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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our…
— Otis Williams
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There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different…
— John Denver
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Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing…
— George Eliot
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A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of…
— June Jordan
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Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you;…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that, when I see it for…
— Danielle LaPorte
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The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
— Alexander Hamilton
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