Namely Quotes
321 Namely quotes by 269 unique authors
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Every Christian is chosen-chosen for similar deeds, namely: to be with the Lord, through unceasing remembrance of Him and awareness of His omnipresence, through the…
— Theophan the Recluse
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Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about…
— James Hunter
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The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primarily for…
— Tony Campolo
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I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's…
— Marshall McLuhan
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None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing…
— Henry Fielding
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Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those…
— Eugene Delacroix
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It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and…
— J M W Turner
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It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig…
— Steven Pinker
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It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to…
— Aeschines
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Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and…
— Gregory A. Boyd
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[It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament] because of the perfection of the New Covenant. The…
— Thomas Aquinas
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One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve…
— Thomas Aquinas
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There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from…
— Baldassare Castiglione
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One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God…
— Brigham Young
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I think there's an underlying insecurity to Bush with a rather classical genesis - namely his being the eldest son of a famous father. I…
— Robert Draper
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If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with…
— David Hare
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I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing…
— Winston Churchill
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I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without…
— Emile M. Cioran
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[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely,…
— John Dryden
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Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all…
— Anna Freud
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We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in…
— Francois Fenelon
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