Lao tzu Quote by Lao Tzu

“Everything looks so much alike that you wonder how people got the idea of inventing names, to make distinctions.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Do you really want to know where we come from?" she said. "In every century, in every country, they'll call us something different. They'll…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Keep her origins a mystery.”

— Robert B. Parker

“A name is a powerful thing. It sets one apart and gives significance.”

— Jessica Khoury

“I had been getting sidetracked by the idea that an entire fearsome race of aliens had given themselves goofy names because of the names…

— John Scalzi

Odd, interesting names are good to me.

— Gregory Smith

“Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit the name.…

— John Steinbeck

“They say that nameless things change constantly -that names fix them in place like pins. But without a name, a thing isn't quite real…

— Holly Black

“People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes they’re carried away by the wind.”

— Eliza Granville

“Naming is a difficult and timeconsuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home?…

— Jeanette Winterson

“We lose names of things. Then the things they named.”

— Marianne Boruch