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Quotes About Name

In the human heart, there is always a great tendency to glorify one's own weaknesses with some convenient angelic name and divine pose.
~ Chinmayananda
I started to understand that just a logo was much more powerful a branding statement than a name alone.
~ Chip Wilson
Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family's name.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It's where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.
~ Chris Cleave
We need expert help and Mr Worcester is the soul of discretion." "It's a consulting detective's middle name," I said. "Sometimes I don't even know what I'm investigating.
~ Chris Dolley
Alexander Hamilton," said Hamilton. "My name is Alexander Hamilton." "I'm Peyton McCallister," said Peyton. "And nobody's done a musical about me, but just you wait. Just you wait.
~ Chris Grabenstein
Jesus gave us the victory with which He overcame Satan, and commissioned us to cast out devils in His Name.
~ Chris Oyakhilome
The girl's name was Desiree, or that's what she said it was anyway. Allan honestly could not have cared less.
~ Christa Faust
His name was Winchester. John Winchester.
~ Christa Faust
You could be my daughter, you know," Mr. Byrne tells me. "Your name—Dorothy . . . we always said we'd give to our own child someday, but alas it didn't come to pass. And here you are, red hair and all.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Once you have that feeling of that great mystery, any piece of information feels like a treasure trove. Whether it's a name or a place where somebody once was, it's a form of a connection that you thought you were never going to have.
~ Christine Kenneally
I'll give that boy the farm Heinrich couldn't take. Write me his name and address on a coaster. All the most important messages are sent on beer mats...
~ Heinrich Boll
remember the name of the firm which he owned. She
~ Helen MacInnes
Christians alone are not allowed to say anything to clear themselves, to defend truth, to save a judge from injustice. That alone is looked for, which the public hate requires—the confession of the name, not the investigation of the charge. …
~ Henry Bettenson
Sir Henry fixed him with a keen eye. 'Odd name, Tom Skatt - eh?' 'Thats right' 'You don't think we could be related?' Tom looked up at his great-great-great-uncle and smiled. 'I don't think so' 'No,' grinned Sir Henry "no, of course not
~ Henry Chancellor
My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, See how the night has no terrors for one who remembers the name.
~ Leonard Cohen
BLESSED ARE YOU WHO HAS given each man a shield of loneliness so that he cannot forget you. You are the truth of loneliness, and only your name addresses it. Strengthen my loneliness that I may be healed in your name, which is beyond all consolations that are uttered on this earth. Only in your name can I stand in the rush of time, only when this loneliness is yours can I lift my sins toward your mercy.
~ Leonard Cohen
Listen to a name so private it can burn hear it said aloud and learn and learn History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison of all they want to keep Now
~ Leonard Cohen
O master of my breath, create a man around these nostrils, and gather my heart toward the gravity of your name. Form me again with an utterance and open my mouth with your praise. There is no life but in affirming you, no world to walk on but the one which you create.
~ Leonard Cohen
O master of my breath, create a man around these nostrils, and gather my heart toward the gravity of your name. Form me again with an utterance and open my mouth with your praise.
~ Leonard Cohen
Oh! my ministering brethren! Much of our praying is but giving God advice! Our praying is discolored with ambition, either for ourselves or for our denomination. Perish the thought! Our goal must be God alone. It is His honor that is sullied, His blessed Son who is ignored, His laws broken, His name profaned, His Book forgotten, His house made a circus of social efforts.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
If we today could rediscover the virtue in that Name, the victory in that Name, the violence in that Name, we could set this world alight for God. Most of us have enough grace to scrape through the day, but we have nothing over. We are conquerors but are not "more than conquerors." We can fight off the enemy but cannot take any prisoners. Ours is a defense action, not an attacking power.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.
~ Leonora Carrington
I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.
~ Les Claypool