Quotes About Names

Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it would remain, for all purposes, as unnamed as it was before the small, anomalous flicker of human life appeared on this small, wildly atypical planet.

I got feelings I don't know the names for. There probly ain't any names. Probly nobody else ever had 'em. I tell you what, I wouldn't wish 'em on a snake.

Lily la chilenita, la camarada Arlette, madame Robert Arnoux, Mrs. Richardson, Kuriko y madame Ricardo Somocurcio, se llamaba, en realidad, Otilia. Otilita.

Some people say cats don't need a name. ...... But I say you need to give a cat a name, if only so they can have the pleasure of ignoring it. If that makes sense. from The Familiar vol. 3

Romans often took family names from agriculture, Cato

There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded—

The future has many names. For the weak, it's unattainable. For the fearful, it's unknown. For the bold, it's ideal. —VICTOR HUGO

In poetry, she was familiar with names as late as Dryden, and had once been seduced into reading "The Rape of the Lock;

None knew who belonged to this ruthless society. The names of the participators in the deeds of blood and violence done under the name of religion were kept profoundly secret.

I dislike all the beginnings of conversations where people ask one another as subtly as possible how old they are, and what their names are, and how they are feeling these days.

What an eternal art it is--such a glittery delightful art--finding hard names for our opponents! How we do sanctify our efforts to keep them from getting the holy dollars we want for ourselves!

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.

Walking on the path I met my Master, known by a million names in different cultures and places yet people have forgotten the way to HIM.

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

This leads to the consideration of a third great division of names, into connotative and non-connotative, the latter sometimes, but improperly, called absolute.

Names have been further distinguished into univocal and æquivocal: these, however, are not two kinds of names, but two different modes of employing names.

The distinction, therefore, between general names, and individual or singular names, is fundamental; and may be considered as the first grand division of names.

The fourth principal division of names, is into positive and negative. Positive, as man, tree, good; negative, as not-man, not-tree, not-good. To every positive concrete name, a corresponding negative one might be framed.

The fifth leading division of names is into relative and absolute, or let us rather say, relative and non-relative; for the word absolute is put upon much too hard duty in metaphysics, not to be willingly spared when its services can be dispensed with.

Are names more properly said to be the names of things, or of our ideas of things? The first is the expression in common use; the last is that of some metaphysicians, who conceived that in adopting it they were introducing a highly important distinction.

The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.

When a general name stands for each and every individual which it is a name of, or in other words, which it denotes, it is said by logicians to be distributed, or taken distributively. Thus, in the proposition, All men are mortal, the subject, Man, is distributed, because mortality is affirmed of each and every man.

Tigers go by several different names here, and one of them is Toyota-because, during the 1990's, that is what you could buy with one.