Names Quotes
6421 Names quotes by 3753 unique authors
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Any act in the name of God returns 10 fold.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.
— Sam Ewing
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To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central…
— Robert Graves
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People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the straw man instead.…
— Unknown Author
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A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation,…
— William Kunstler
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Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence…
— Joanna Trollope
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
— Jean Genet
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People asked me to change my name for [808s]...I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special.
— Kanye West
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In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the…
— Rene Descartes
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
— Ralph Chaplin
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Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians…
— Ken Hensley
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Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.
— Ernst Cassirer
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There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.
— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
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I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.
— Joe Shuster
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This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that wed ever name a car on Top Gear. I…
— Richard Hammond
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You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence.…
— Melina Mercouri
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THERE WAS NEVER A SCHINDLER'S LIST. It was drawn up by a man called Goldman. This man took money to put a name on that…
— Emilie Schindler
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To speak for others is to first silence those in whose name we speak
— Michel Callon
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I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at…
— Jane Asher
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I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it,…
— Fergie
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For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.
— Michael Arad
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I’m fortunate to have found out early, in 1990, just two years after I retired, that I have neurological damage. I try to manage it. I…
— Unknown Author
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Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point. Eventually their growth…
— John Neff
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My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.
— Esperanza Spalding
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Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on…
— Avro Manhattan
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