Names Quotes

Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything.

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]

As long as there are those who are willing to shed blood and take innocent life in the name of religion, the name of God, the world will never know a true and lasting peace.

The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone.

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom.

He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'.

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.

I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.

Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.

My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random.

I'd like to give divorce a good name.

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility).

Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.

Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?

It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.

To have my name said like, "Common and John Legend, Golden Globe nominees," is one of the greatest achievements I've ever had as an artist, as a person.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.

We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.

Service to mankind must ever be the ideal of this great university. It was established in the name of Jesus Christ, who gave his life that all men might live.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.