Quotes and Sayings About Names
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The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die nor live because for such persons both living and dying are troublesome.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
-- A. S. ByattSource : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Dec 16, 2011
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If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach...
-- Aaron CoplandSource : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
-- Aaron Huey -
Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.
-- Abba Eban -
I heard my name." Ash's voice startles me. "You tow better not be making fun of me about this stupid bra Mama's making me wear. I've had it with the jokes. I'll break both your noses if it doesn't stop.
-- Abbi Glines -
I loved her. I loved her with a something so fierce I couldn't even name it.
-- Abbi Glines -
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A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.
-- Abbott Eliot KittredgeSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush -
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
-- Aberjhani -
Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?
-- Abraham Coles -
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
-- Abraham Joshua HeschelSource : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!
-- Abraham Kuyper -
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
-- Ada Louise HuxtableSource : Ada Louise Huxtable (1976). “Kicked a building lately?”, Crown
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Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.
-- Adam Brody -
You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
-- Adam Carolla -
Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?
-- Adam Carolla -
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Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
-- Adam ClarkeSource : Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian theology, by A. Clarke, selected from his writings, with a life of the author by S. Dunn”, p.387
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
-- Adam Johnson -
A name isn't a person,' Ga said. 'Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you.
-- Adam Johnson -
Now my soul is incarnate in my country, My body has swallowed her soul, And I and my country are one. My name is million, for I love and suffer for millions.
-- Adam MickiewiczSource : Adam Mickiewicz, Louise Varèse (1956). “The great improvisation”
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And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.
-- Adam Parfrey -
Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.
-- Adam Rich