Quotes About Name

There, in the worlds of the Life and the Death, the worlds that she used to know. Now, some say her name is Mercy, and others say it's Lust. Her secret name is Isis. Her secret soul is Dust.

To read is to struggle to name, to subject the sentences of a text to a semantic transformation. This transformation is erratic; it consists in hesitating among several names: if we are told that Sarrasine had ' one of those strong wills that know no obstacle '. what are we to read? will, energy, obstinacy, stubbornness, etc.?

To put Mr. Rockefeller's name prominently forward Ã¢â'¬Â¦ would impair the usefulness of the work.

We were beginning to prosper and I felt very uneasy at my name being linked up with these speculators.

There was a small wire-mesh holder on the counter, full of business cards supplied by the MoneyGram franchise. A side benefit, presumably, along with the commission. Reacher took a card and read it. The guy's name was not Maloney. Reacher asked him, "You got a local phone book?" "What for?" "I want to balance it on my head to improve my deportment." "What?" "I want to look up a number. What else is a phone book for?

What was your guy's name?" "Archibald," I said. "That's the kind of name you don't hear often." "Lowland Scottish," I said. "Via Old French and Old High German. The third Earl of Douglas was called Archibald the Grim. No such romance in my case. My guy was called Archibald the worthless piece of shit.

Michelle," she said. "Or Shell, sometimes, for short. Which I quite like. It's a nice diminutive. Except not with my last name. Shell Chang sounds somewhere between a Korean porn star and an oil exploration company in the South China Sea and a roll of quarters being dumped in a cash register.

I felt a little envious for a second. If I got offed in the woods late one night, I doubted if three tough guys would go straight to someone's office, eight in the morning, champing at the bit, ready for revenge. Then I looked at the three of them again and thought, This particular perp could be in a shitload of trouble. All I'd have to do is drop a name.

Reacher nodded. "For a spell." Then he said: "Plato is a weird name for a Mexican, don't you think? Sounds more like a Brazilian name to me." "No, Yugoslavian," Peterson said. "Like that old dictator." "That was Tito." "I thought he was a South African bishop." "That was Tutu.

His name was Kramer and he was a Catholic and his blood group was O.

Seventeen rounds to a magazine, hence the name.

You should introduce me to your friend." Reacher stepped up and said his name and shook her hand. It felt like a dove's wing in a gorilla's paw.

she had a name made to be embroidered on bowling shirts.

To the voters in 1960, the name Nikita Khrushchev carried great emotional significance. To these students, he sounded like just another hockey player.

On ignorance depends karma; on karma depends consciousness; on consciousness depend name and form; on name and form depend the five organs of sense; on the five organs of sense depends contact; on contact depends sensation; on sensation depends desire; on desire depends clutching; on clutching depends existence; on existence depends birth; on birth depend old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief and despair. —The Buddha's twelvefold concatenation of cause and effect

Meu nome é Alice, mas...' 'Um nome bem bobo!' Humpty Dumpty a interrompeu com impaciência. 'O que significa?' 'Um nome deve significar alguma coisa?' Alice perguntou ambiguamente 'Claro que deve', Humpty Dumpy respondeu com uma risada curta.

Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

Sometimes when the wind blows through the leaves, it sounds like your name. It's like a sigh then. The most beautiful sound I ever heard. A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer – Gem-ma, Gem-ma – and then the leaves trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

Next time we see you, you'll be on trial for some ingenious crime!" Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. "Just as long as they know my name.

Sometimes, when the wind blows through them leaves, it sounds like your name. It's like a sigh, then, she says. The most beautiful sound I ever heard. A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

Her name was Cassiana Clara.

wants to redeem, restore, and change your identity so that there is no incident, season, or name from your past left to define you.

Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.

Holy name alone is sufficient to take you back home back to godhead. However to cultivate the mood of surrender You need a Guru.