Namely Quotes

321 Namely quotes by 269 unique authors

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting,… — Albert Schweitzer
The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym… — Vladimir Nabokov
When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they… — Baroness Orczy
The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed… — Tom Robbins
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift… — H P Lovecraft
I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the… — David Sedaris
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in… — Wendell Berry
Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love… — M. Scott Peck
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a… — Mark Twain
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. — Bertrand Russell
Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is… — Martin Heidegger
There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of… — Michael Ende
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated. — Paul Tillich
By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange. — Jane Jacobs
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from… — Franz Kafka
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity. — Kurt Vonnegut
But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party- namely,… — Mikhail Bulgakov
I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're… — Douglas Coupland
The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected… — William A. Dembski
If the work of our sanctification presents us with difficulties that appear insurmountable, it is because we do not look at it in the right… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all… — John Piper
One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose of establishing order—value… — Catherynne M. Valente
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing… — Mark Twain

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