Quotes About Name

Funny how you always called me Albert when I am not Albert. I answered all the same.

Matter is the shape, mind is the name. Together they make the world. Pervading and transcending is Reality, pure being/awareness/bliss, your very essence.

We have decided to call the entire field of control and communication theory, whether in the machine or in the animal, by the name of Cybernetics, which we form from the Greek [for] steersman.

You have sat here too long for any good you may be doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you! In the name of God, go!

I found a copy of Leven's birth certificate and was surprised to see his birth name listed as E. Leven Thumps. I assume the E. stands for Elton , and I have no idea why they didnt spell it out, but it's intresting to think that it took exactly eleven whacks or thumps to down the oldest tree.

So much agony caused, so much evil done in God's name.

Name plus purpose equals focus for me.

We were sorry for them, for such deaths were really horrible; yet we envied them, too. They had found the courage to reject a life which no longer merited the name.

Everyone who seeks salvation must do three things: change his place of residence, change his name, and change his deeds.

You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing lately…. Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Thus the people, who could not bear the very name of king, readily submitted to a magistrate possessed of much greater power; so much do the names of things mislead us, and so little is any form of government irksome to the people, when it coincides with their prejudices.

Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way

To say "all that which does not exist" is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain entity about which we know nothing except that it bears the name of "all that which does not exist.

A name is a marker of identity but there are markers we cannot change, like the color of our bodies.

I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.

So what do we do next, Haunt Huntress?" "That's a pretty lame superhero name," I told him. "Scooby-Doo is already taken," he said with dignity. "Anything else sounds lame in comparison.

Are you asking for quarter? I'm not in a particularly merciful mood." I can make fun of my name, but no one else can. Unless I'm in a really good mood. Or if I start it first.

Then suddenly Coyote stopped, turned to me, grabbed me by my hands, looked into my eyes, and said, "Her name is Death.

That's a pretty lame superhero name," I told him. "Scooby-Doo is already taken," he said with dignity. "Anything else sounds lame in comparison.

Punta Rassa," Emma repeated. "That's a pretty name. Does it mean anything?" "It means twelve dollars a cow, and we got a hundred and forty-eight of them. I can't even figure that high.

It is not my name, but the name I use for this story. A name, I hoped, that would be free of prophecy, free of the burden of a future placed upon it, free of any destiny that would tear it from my hands and destroy worlds. You think I overstate. You are wrong.

What I have given you is the most important thing a father can give," Isaac told Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond. What he had given them, he said, was "a good name.

It was not just OxyContin that was problematic, Berman continued, but Arthur's legacy as well. "The Sackler name is a problem, whether it's the Arthur Sackler name, or all the Sackler names," he said.