Quotes with names

Quotes 61 till 73 of 73.

  • Plato They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bernard Malamud They were together now in the vault under the tombstone; their ashes were, with the remains of those of their children who were not buried elsewhere, although all their names were incised on the stone.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Bob Dole Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Alan Watts We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Watson 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.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Anita Diamant 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.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Billy Idol When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Bill Simmons Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Brad Bird Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Arnold Palmer You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
    Arnold Palmer
    American golf player (1929 - 2016)
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