Change Quote by Stefan Zweig

We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The name we…

— Katherine Paterson

This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.'

— Sara Bareilles

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

— Lois Lowry

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free…

— Samuel Johnson

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

— Bentley Little

“Because things accumulate around your name," said Berenice. "You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in…

— Carson McCullers

names are a way to keep people in your mind

— Maggie Stiefvater

Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to…

— Joshua Ferris

I think the name perfectly encapsulates my soul, and so I get to be myself with the safety of a different name.

— King Princess

“The passion for naming things is an odd human trait. It is strange that men always feel so much more at ease when they…

— George Gaylord Simpson

It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly.

— John O'Donohue