Quotes with name-calling

Quotes 161 till 180 of 368.

  • John Selden In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Hubert Humphrey In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Emma Goldman In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, ''until death doth part.''
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Walt Whitman In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Salman Rushdie India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • José Saramago Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
    Blindness (1997)
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • Bob Costas It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.
    Bob Costas
    American sportscaster (1952 - )
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  • Agnes Macphail It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It is not a lucky word, this name ''impossible''; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Vance Havner It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Alexander Henry It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • Assata Shakur It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile Peacekeeper. It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of peace-keeping.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Raymond Williams It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.
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  • Victor Serge It's a question to ask ourselves if we're not mad. But who are the madmen, in God's name? Those who wonder about it, or the others? If we ever began to speak out loud, what would they do with us, tell me?
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  • Richard D. Rosen It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.
    Richard D. Rosen
    American author
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  • Calista Flockhart It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Alexander Theroux It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
    Alexander Theroux
    American novelist and poet
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  • Swami Brahmananda Knowing that his past actions may try to overwhelm him, the devotee must be prepared to combat them. God will give him the strength: His Name will be an impenetrable armor. It will save him from all the consequences.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
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  • Louisa May Alcott Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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