Name Quotes
7649 Name quotes by 4442 unique authors
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A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a…
— David Antin
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
— Edward Abbey
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters,…
— Edward Abbey
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And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all…
— Zadie Smith
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And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide…
— Douglas Adams
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Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on principles that will…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought to be harmed…
— Benjamin Franklin
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When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales…
— Thomas Paine
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The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult…
— Thomas Paine
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I remember I autographed it to Mutt Lange, and I may only have put one t on Mutt. I mean, I'd never heard of such…
— Shania Twain
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Believing would be easier if God would show himself by depositing a million dollars in a Swiss bank account in my name
— Woody Allen
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Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can't remember the name, but it wasn't even a sad movie. It caught…
— Roger Federer
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Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The…
— Elliott Smith
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The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion....
— James Madison
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
— Charles de Gaulle
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To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset…
— Carl Jung
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The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.…
— William James
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Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des…
— Karl Marx
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I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket and flew to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed?
— Homer
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Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has…
— Pericles
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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name…
— Novak Djokovic
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A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story…
— Boris Becker
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No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who…
— Malcolm Lowry
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If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork
— Thom Yorke
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