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Quotes About Designation

the hotel was no longer Gardner's "once rather noble Chelsea," despite its rather bizarrely timed designation as a national historic landmark that year.
~ Sherill Tippins
The underlying reason why Woods might be identified as black in the first place, given his very mixed heritage, is the traditional "one-drop rule" in the United States. This rule refers to the legal (for a time) designation of people with any black ancestry—that is, a person with even a single drop of black blood—as black.
~ John Iceland
Anchorage, which is about the stupidest thing you ever could get to naming a harbor. I mean, why not just call it Harbor, like it was the only one ever?
~ Elizabeth Bear
There are multiple claims to Mr. Smart.
~ Elizabeth Bear
States require that a resident agent be designated.
~ Garrett Sutton
We're quick to describe politicians whose views we find extreme or whose behavior seems odd as 'crazy,' and perhaps anyone who runs for president in some sense is. But I've long wondered whether Newt Gingrich merits that designation in a more clinical sense.
~ Jacob Weisberg
In 1411, the French Crown granted a patent declaring that only the cheese of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon could be called Roquefort cheese.
~ Mark Kurlansky
To define, is to select from among all the properties of a thing, those which shall be understood to be designated and declared by its name; and the properties must be well known to us before we can be competent to determine which of them are fittest to be chosen for this purpose.
~ John Stuart Mill
Humans have this need to name everything, no matter how little that thing may deserve it.
~ John Varley
Realization that is beyond characteristic or designation is marvelous!
~ Longchenpa
It ain't nothin' till I call it.
~ Bill Klem
Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
~ Barbara Boxer
They called me 'Doc.' You know... it's probably one of the best titles I've ever had.
~ James McCloughan
we had not chosen who that cardiologist would be.
~ Atul Gawande
U?ywanie nazw, jak Wieloryp, RozwaleÅ", Trupiec, ZdechÅ'oÅ", Ã…Å¡cierwiszon, Padliniak, okreÅ›lanie k. jako ZwÅ'okochodów, KÅ'usogrobów, Kryptodreptów itp. jest Å›cigane i karane poni?ajÄ…cym przesiedleniem (zsyÅ'kÄ… w tyÅ', tzw. ozadnictwem).
~ Stanis?aw Lem
We walk across the bridge and Indigo explains that collies are Sugar Dogs, dachshunds, terriers and other dogs bred to catch rats are Rogers, while German shepherds were designated Ables, although Indigo didn't know why.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
FN-2187 was simply Eight-Seven
~ Greg Rucka
England and Britain and the United Kingdom are not the same thing. England is the country. Britain is the island containing England, Scotland, and Wales. The United Kingdom is the formal designation of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as a political entity. If you mess this up, you will be corrected. Repeatedly.
~ Maureen Johnson
It has been said that according to ancient designations, as well as its possession of the Indus River, Pakistan has a better claim to be called "India" than its neighbor.)
~ Stephen Tanner
In the war on terror, anyone may be designated the enemy. The president claims that only he may make this designation, and that his designation is conclusive and may not be reviewed by any court.
~ Joseph Margulies
The form of Baptism consists in the words accompanying the ablution. There are two essential parts: (i) the verbal designa tion of the baptismal act, and (2) the express in vocation of the three Persons of the Most Holy Trinity.
~ Joseph Pohle
everyone began to call them "sharters
~ Ernest Cline
Yakutsk was widely considered the coldest city on earth—a designation it still holds today—and the world's largest city built entirely on permafrost.
~ Hampton Sides
I worry when we try to make every little cluster of traits into a syndrome, ignoring the toxic stigmatizing effects of being so designated, which can last a lifetime. We could help Doug without forcing him to become a pathological specimen!
~ Mel Levine