Quotes with names

  • What doesn't allow us to move forward because when we simply - and I've seen it on social media; it really, really upsets me - is to get in our corners and call names and turn our back to each other.
  • I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
  • I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.
  • I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
  • Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
  • Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
  • An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Mel Brooks Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
    Mel Brooks
    American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer (1926 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Mann An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Barack Obama And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood And so with all things: names were vital and important.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Anita Diamant Biblical names are hot again.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Brit Morin Don't let a lack of big company names on your resume get you down, but also, don't let it feed a Silicon Valley ego. Oftentimes, the best candidates come from startups or smaller companies. It shows they are open to risk and can keep up with the long hours and occasional harsh demands.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Martin Bormann Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his ''death,'' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
    Martin Bormann
     
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  • Branch Rickey First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • John Mason Brown Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
    Leviathan (1651) XIII
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Bill Dedman Groups that advocate open government have argued that it's vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barret Browning He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
    Elizabeth Barret Browning
     
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  • Matthew Arnold Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Alice Walker How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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