Names Quotes
6421 Names quotes by 3753 unique authors
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Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a…
— Brian Aldiss
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I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.
— Heidi Klum
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy…
— Petrarch
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To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses'…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so…
— Taslima Nasrin
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I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976.…
— Mike Tyson
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There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my…
— Mike Tyson
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Advocating through art is known as propaganda. You should look up the name Goebbels.
— Glenn Beck
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The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership,…
— Dan B. Allender
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Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government…
— Meg Whitman
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A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?
— Mercedes Lackey
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There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a…
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not…
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling…
— Richard Baxter
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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
— Mahmoud Darwish
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And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything…
— Mark Strand
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Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything -…
— Clive James
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I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing…
— John Cage
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In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of…
— Dan B. Allender
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
— Sinclair Lewis
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I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
— Brooks Robinson
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