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Quotes About Name

I like boysenberry. I have no idea what it is. And it sounds like poison - which is terrifying - but you can't hold a name against a flavor. If you did that, everyone would hate Crunchberries.
~ Rob Riggle
I want to ask those who are aiding terror, what do you get by taking innocent lives? Islam is a religion of peace; you are maligning its name.
~ Sheikh Hasina
It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance.
~ Milos Zeman
By having the President's name on buildings, that is a potential terrorist target.
~ Richard Painter
Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. / The name of the story will be time, / But you must not speak its name. / Tell me a story of deep delight.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Yet leaving here a name, I trust,That will not perish in the dust.
~ Robert Southey
The family crest of none other than Professor James Moriarty." The very name filled me with fear, and my trousers with something that was certainly not fear.
~ Robert Thomas
The Aurelii, or Sabine origin like the Claudii, had charge of the cult of the Sun, to whom they owed their name (Ausel which harked back in fact to the Etruscan Usil) and to whom the family sacrificed in the name of the Roman people
~ Robert Turcan
April was devoted to Venus and Ovid at once invokes this goddess in the fourth book of the Fasti. Aprilis may even have emerged from the Etruscan Aphru, which transcribes the Greek name Aphrodite
~ Robert Turcan
The card for the Santa Teresa cybercafe was a deepred, so red that it was hard to read what was printed on it. On the back, in a lighter red, was a map that showed exactly where the cafe was located. He asked the receptionist to translate the name of the place. The clerk laughed and said it was called Fire, Walk With Me.
~ Roberto Bolano
Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that's what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage.
~ Roberto Bolano
The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice's name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore.
~ Robin Gibb
It's an old tradition or perhaps a superstition. Never call something by its true name if you wish to avoid calling its attention to you. Perhaps
~ Robin Hobb
That most ancient of magics, the binding of a man by the use of his name, gripped him.
~ Robin Hobb
Amber?" he said pleadingly. His voice went high on her name and broke, as it sometimes did when he was afraid. "Are you taking my beads away?
~ Robin Hobb
It was an impressive display of good food abused in the name of fashionable cooking.
~ Robin Hobb
Twas Chivalry's son, His eyes like flame, Who shared his blood If not his name. A Farseer son, But ne'er an heir. Whose bloodied locks No crown would bear.
~ Robin Hobb
And he's illegitimate?" "Yes. That's why his given name has a Fitz at the start. His father acknowledged him.
~ Robin Hobb
Christy recognized that name as the same one Todd had used at the airport. "What does that word mean?" "Kilikina? That's your name in Hawaiian. Actually, it's Hawaiian for 'Christina.' 'Christy' would be Kiliki.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
The peddling of fear in any form as incentive to faith remains the most egregious sin that can be committed in the name of Jesus. It feels very good to name the enemy and thank God that you are not like "those people." But if Christianity is to survive, someone needs to stand up in the middle of one of these hapless sermons and quote the comic-strip character Pogo: "We have met the enemy, and he is us.
~ Robin Meyers
But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary; …" Luke 1:30 How like the Lord to identify our fears and hasten to ease them. Notice that Gabriel called her by name: "Mary, you have nothing to fear" (MSG). God knew her name just as he knows ours.
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
Call me The Giver," he told Jonas.
~ Lois Lowry
Tyroooonnne!
~ Lois Lowry
Jonas was shocked. A name designated Not-to-Be-Spoken indicated the highest degree of disgrace.
~ Lois Lowry