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05-22-2025
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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 -
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. Byatt -
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 Copland -
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 -
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 Kittredge -
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 -
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 Heschel -
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 -
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
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 -
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 Clarke -
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 Mickiewicz -
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 -
We [ with Andy Samberg] knew each other for the last few years, our names are similar, our looks are a little bit similar, and our backgrounds are similar. The Judaism is quite similar.
-- Adam Sandler -
Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
-- Adam Savage -
The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation. None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes
-- Adam Yauch -
Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.
-- Adam Zagajewski -
I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.
-- Adele -
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
-- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje -
The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word. We are steering towards an order of things guaranteeing a process of a natural and reasonable selection in the domain of political leadership, thanks to which that leadership will be entrusted to the most competent, irrespective of their descent, name or fortune. The memorable words of the great Corsican that every soldier carries a Field Marshal's baton in his knapsack, will find its political complement in Germany.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the enmity that brings far more costs than any possible benefits. It would be a wonderful thing for all of humanity if both peoples would renounce force against each other forever. The German people are ready to make such a pledge.
-- Adolf Hitler -
People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.
-- Adolf von Harnack -
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
-- Adrienne Rich -
It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.
-- Agnes Macphail -
I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.
-- Agyness Deyn -
Trapnest means “The Trapped Den†Once we enter it, we can’t get out by our own means I thought that that name could only come from a man who love having power over other.Â
-- Ai Yazawa -
And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.
-- Aidan Chambers -
When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM." "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less!
-- Ajay Devgan -
To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.
-- Ajay Devgan -
They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
-- Al Pacino -
I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.… This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope.… Don't let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem giants who will stand up for our children.
-- Al Sharpton -
He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.
-- Al-Ghazali -
To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
-- Alain de Botton -
Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.
-- Alan Ayckbourn -
So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
-- Alan Bennett -
We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?
-- Alan Bennett -
People tune in to the Fox News Channel because it was founded on the premise that all sides should be presented fairly. This has upset the 'media establishment' but has made Fox the most powerful name in the news. I'm proud that Hannity & Colmes has contributed to this success, an achievement that has been often dissected by liberal media pundits who argue that Sean is more aggressive than I am and therefore dominates the show.
-- Alan Colmes -
Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.
-- Alan Guth -
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
-- Alan Hirsch -
When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and that if you then walk a walk that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, cast a vote that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, then you are taking the name of the Lord your God in vain?
-- Alan Keyes -
It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
-- Alan Paton -
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
-- Alan Paton -
Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,†that is, separate from “I.
-- Alan Watts -
For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.
-- Alber Elbaz -
Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.
-- Albert Claude -
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
-- Albert Einstein -
We are always in danger of rejecting the creational in name of the fall and of accepting the fallen in name of creation.
-- Albert M. Wolters -
To use the image of Che Guevara to sell vodka is a slur on his name and memory. He never drank himself, he was not a drunk, and drink should not be associated with his immortal memory... As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died, I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world.
-- Alberto Korda -
I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it.
-- Alberto Manguel -
The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to ***** or mask the process of dilution.
-- Aldo Leopold -
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
-- Aldous Huxley -
One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
-- Aldous Huxley -
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.
-- Aldrich Ames -
My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.
-- Aldrich Ames -
The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.
-- Aldrich Ames -
I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.
-- Aldrich Ames -
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.
-- Aldrich Ames -
The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?
-- Aleister Crowley -
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. -Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.
-- Alex Ferguson -
It’s…it’s easy to have some little bitty website and use a fake name and sit there and…you know…talk bad about Jews all day and enjoy yourselves…uh, you know…getting your kicks ’cause you live in, you know…a…a one room apartment and your mad at life or whatever and wanna blame us…you know.
-- Alex Jones -
I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.
-- Alex Prager -
My name is Alex Riley and I've been signed to a personal services contract for The Miz.
-- Alex Riley -
My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.
-- Alexander Downer -
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
-- Alexander Pope -
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
-- Alexander Pope -
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
-- Alexander Pope -
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
-- Alexander the Great -
Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.
-- Alexander Theroux -
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
-- Alexander Theroux -
I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!
-- Alexander Wang -
Thank you,†he was whispering, “thank you, thank you.…†And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away the tears and soot, chanting my name.
-- Alexandra Bracken
