Quotes About Name

I hope I give a good performance; I hope it's enjoyable. If I'm a villain and you hate me, that means I'm doing my job. But I'm not the one to stand for anybody to call me out of my name for any reason.

My name itself is extremely campy. Violet Chachki literally translates to purple doodad.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

I consider Anne of Green Gables to be a mentor, Jane Austen to be a writing hero, and the Bard a fellow name freak like myself.

Dr. Vos is of the opinion that Jesus probably preferred the name, because it stood farthest removed from every possible Jewish prostitution of the Messianic office. By calling Himself the Son of Man, Jesus imparted to the Messiahship His own heaven-centered spirit.

No, a thousand times no; there does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit to the tree which bears it.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

She lay still and tried to fish the name out of the water of memory that flooded her mind, but it was no use.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

A name illustrious and revered by nations.

Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint or a pile of rubble.

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?

The new father finally hangs up the phone, laughing at absolutely nothing. Congratulations, I say, when what I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in stars so that she never, ever does to him what I have done to my parents.

Can't you hear it?' you said. 'When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

He was suffering from wanderlust, complicated by the tension of knowing that he was rooted to this town by something as simple as his name.

Your name, Minka. Short for Wilhelmina. You know what it means? Chosen protection.

know he hired a new deputy on the spot." Pearly hesitated. New deputy, Lauren wrote down, then waited for the name. "Fill me in on details, Pearly. Was he already

I die. I breathe in and breahe in and cannot exhale. I explode all over my friends. They forget my name and pretend it is dung. They wash off in the square and the well becomes polluted. All die. O the embarrassment.

Does anyone remember the name of Paul Revere's horse?

A man will only be as long as his life but his name will be for all time.

it is that the name of God is the object of our fear, because by his name his nature is expressed: Holy and reverend is his name (Psa 111:9). And again, he proclaimed the name of the Lord, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth; keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty (Exo 34:6,7).

As the presence and name of God are dreadful and fearful in the church, so is his worship and service. I say his worship, or the works of service to which we are by him enjoined while we are in this world, are dreadful and fearful things.

at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.