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Quotes About Name

And history while for the warning of vehement high, and during natures, she notes his many errors, will yet deliberately pronounce that among the eminent men whose bones lie near his, scarcely one has left a more stainless, and none a more splendid name.
~ Winston S. Churchill
All religions believe that a Deity, a God, a Supreme Being, by whatever name they choose to call It, existed at the beginning of creation.
~ Wu Wei
The attacks will stop when the department states the truth about my innocence, PUBLICLY!!! I will not accept any type of currency/goods in exchange for the attacks to stop, nor do i want it. I want my name back, period.
~ Unknown
Mike Hickman disappeared. In his place arose Micah True, a name inspired by "the courageous and fearless spirit" of the Old Testament prophet Micah and the loyalty of an old mutt called True Dog.
~ Christopher McDougall
You remind me of something that happened in our book department the other day. A flapper came in and said she had forgotten the name of the book she wanted, but it was something about a young man who had been brought up by the monks. I was stumped. I tried her with The Cloister and the Hearth and Monastery Bells and Legends of the Monastic Orders and so on, but her face was blank. Then one of the salesgirls overheard us talking, and she guessed it right off the bat. Of course it was Tarzan.
~ Christopher Morley
I stood alone beneath the stars and shouted to the heavens at the top of my lungs and what was so beautiful was the way the stars shined when the sky swallowed your name.
~ Christopher Poindexter
The word 'God' defines a personal relation, not an objective concept. Like the name of the beloved in every love. It does not imply separation and distance. Hearing the beloved name is an immediate awareness, a dimensionless proximity of presence. It is our life wholly transformed into relation.
~ Unknown
Only those who come within the church, who take on the name of Christ, can take his name in vain. Now, you do not do it with your lips; you do it with your life.
~ Clarence Jordan
They gave me a name and alienated me from myself.
~ Clarice Lispector
I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun.
~ Clarice Lispector
Since God doesn't have a name, I'll give him the name of Simptar. It doesn't come from any language. I give myself the name Amptala. As far as I know no such name exists. Perhaps in a language earlier than Sanskrit, an it-language.
~ Clarice Lispector
I desire nothing of your life that has passed, not even your name, not even your dreams, not even the story of your suffering; the mystery explains more than the light; you will not ask anything about me either; I am Joana, you are a body living, I am a body living, nothing more.
~ Clarice Lispector
Freedom isn't enough. What I desire doesn't have a name yet.—I am thus a toy that is wound up and which when done will not find its own, deeper life.
~ Clarice Lispector
Love smells of moonlight and old photographs. Love is the sound of your name being called by your lover.
~ Clifford Thurlow
The pasta was always al dente, an expression which could be pressed into service as the name of a ferocious gangster.
~ Clive James
I wore your promise on my finger for one year I'll wear your name on my heart til I die Because you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.
~ Coco J. Ginger
There is no doubt that, if ever my heart were to call my master Chance by another name, I should make an excellent Catholic.
~ Colette
But when he said in his heart of hearts "Vinca!", the name inseparably linked with his friend, evoked the memory of sand, warm to kneel on, or trickling out between fingers that held it in a tight squeeze...
~ Colette
I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him.
~ Herbert Hoover
Bob is just my name, Bobby is my job.
~ Hermann Hesse
Policy is the servant of reason. It is a sort of blasphemy to make human reason contradict itself and advise in the name of policy what it forbids in the name of morality.
~ Hilary Mantel
The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone.
~ Hilary McKay
We strove for a name, while the light of the lamps burnt thin and the outer dawn came in, a ghost, the last at the feast or the first, to sit within with the two that remained to quibble in flowers and verse over a girl's name.
~ Hilda Doolittle
He is the living incarnation of evil! His name is Dio, awakened after a century of sleep! Our destiny is to fight this man!
~ Unknown