Names Quotes

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

His [Donald Trump] name is on everything. He is a celebrity. But he is not a governor. He has never run government. He is a business executive.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

Never name the well from which you will not drink.

I did ask Larry David, "How did I get so lucky? How am I here Seinfeld?" He just said, 'Well, when you say your name over and over it just has a really strong rhythm: "Marisa Tomei. Marisa Tomei."

I still don't feel whatever change you're supposed to feel when your name goes up above the title.

Stubbornness should have been my middle name.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

The cross of Christ is the response of God to men for belittling His name.

Do you want your name to live forever? You fool! Forget your name, try to save yourself! What use there is for you, if your name lives and you die? You fool!

I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.

There should be a separate line to scrutinize anybody with the name Abdul or Ahmed or Mohammed.

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.

He took my music, but he gave me my name.

Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times

Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.

The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

I attribute my whole success in life to a rigid observance of the fundamental rule - Never have yourself tattooed with any woman's name, not even her initials.

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job.

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

I'm flying to China and Japan - if you think Beckham is a big name, you should see me there.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.

A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup.

"Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.

Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.

Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?

It's a badge of honor to have your name called by Trump and be made a nickname.

It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

All names mean something.

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.

Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.