Quotes About Name

Eternity alone can reveal to the human race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and immortal name of Washington.

Because fear called her by her name. (Her own name, not fear's name. Fear doesn't have a name; it's just the steady beat underneath a smile.)

The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity. It also exhales the musty odor of sanctimony and falsehood.

The bus had a name too. Elaborately painted letters across the back declared it to be "Old but Sexy." It occurred to me that as I slipped inexorably into middle age, such a title might be the best I myself could hope for.

I would still be inclined to argue that you are underestimating the value of Twaddle's good name, for it is all that he has. As you yourself just pointed out, he is nothing but a name.

Now, rest in the security of My name and all that it means to your identity. (Isaiah 45:2 – 3)

His name is fool and folly goes with him everywhere he goes" (1 Samuel 25:25, paraphrased).

Whatever you lend, let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and if you can contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.

summer of 1956, the Dartmouth conference has subsequently become famous as the event that finally established artificial intelligence as a field in its own right and gave it the name that has stuck.

dropped the old name, Alto Aloha Network, in favor of a new phrase: the "ETHER Network." "If Ethernet was invented in any one memo, by any one person, or on any one day," says Metcalfe, "this was it.

By mid-1970, they had a preliminary version up and running. Somewhere along the way, moreover, their homebrew operating system had acquired a name. According to one version of the story, the name signified "one of whatever Multics was many of." According to another, it stood for "Multics without balls." But either way it came out the same: Unix.

Your name is Chet? Chet the Celestial Being?" "Look," he says. "I don't need this." "Do you really think I'm becoming a vampire?" "You are becoming a vampire. Within a few months, you'll be a killer." He moves to rise. "Damn," says Chet the Celestial Being. "I am unused to physical existence and my leg has fallen asleep.

Out of this political turmoil rose a man who called himself Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. That was not his name, but revolutionaries often didn't call themselves by their names.

I did not lie dreaming of him during the days, I did not speak his name into my pillow. He was no husband, scarcely even a friend. He was a poison snake, and I was another, and on such terms we pleased ourselves.

Killing a whole family was something to boast of, a glorious deed that proved you powerful enough to wipe a name from the earth.

Aside from anything else marriage may have provided the young grand duchess, it enabled Marie to drop her title and the Romanov name, now considered indecent by the public.

Jung deu um nome ao seu tipo de mulher. Um nome que não ajuda muito. A doença é bem pior do que o nome..." "Que nome é esse?", perguntei-lhe. "Não é costume dizer aos enfermos os nomes das suas doenças.

FROME. [Rising] My lord. The prisoner is very anxious that I should ask you if your lordship would kindly request the reporters not to disclose the name of the woman witness in the Press reports of these proceedings. Your lordship will understand that the consequences might be extremely serious to her.

What kind of name is Siler-Spence? I mean, what's wrong with these women who use hyphens? What if her name was Skowinski and she married a guy named Levondowski? Would her little liberated soul insist she go through life as F.Gwendolin Skowinski- Levondowski?

The Prosecutor. His first name was Wagner, an extremely odd choice by his mother, but then it was her maiden name and she thought it fit him nicely, at least in the hospital. By the age of ten, though, he hated it for many reasons and chopped it in half. He'd gone by Wag for the past thirty years. Wag Dunlap. The voters seemed to like the oddness of his name.

About twenty years ago a man by the name of Duncan was caught with a truckload of marijuana near Winter Haven.

the surprised bookseller, whose name (inexplicably) was Mendelssohn. He was no relation to the German composer, and this Mendelssohn either overliked his last name or disliked his first so much that he never revealed it. (When Ted had once asked him his first name, Mendelssohn had said only: Not Felix.)

Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic, Richard told me. And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.

It's not God who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in Him and who claim to pursue their ends in His holy name!