Top Names Quotes Collection

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Image of Hans Rosling
I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.
- Hans Rosling
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Image of Felix Dennis
Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.
- Felix Dennis
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Image of Claire LaZebnik
Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents’ clout.
- Claire LaZebnik
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Image of John Christopher
And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.
- John Christopher
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Image of Kiera Cass
He stood and went to read my pin as I approached. “America, is it?” he said, a smile playing on his lips. “Yes, it is. And I know I’ve heard your name before, but could you remind me?
- Kiera Cass
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Image of Mickey Rivers
Your first name's white, your second is Hispanic, and your third belongs to a black. No wonder you don't know who you are.
- Mickey Rivers
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Image of Lyn Nofziger
The feminist women's organization NOW has endorsed Carol Moseley-Braun for president. Once again NOW has shown it is so far behind the times it should change its name to THEN.
- Lyn Nofziger
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Image of Jennifer Worth
There is a greater gift than the trust of others. That is to trust in oneself. Some might call it confidence, others name it faith. But if it makes us brave, the label doesn’t matter... for it’s the thing that frees us, to embrace life itself.
- Jennifer Worth
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Image of Jef Raskin
An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.
- Jef Raskin
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Image of Wendy Mass
I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.
- Wendy Mass
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Image of Susanna Clarke
And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.
- Susanna Clarke
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Image of Thorstein Veblen
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
- Thorstein Veblen
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Image of Michael Thomas Ford
Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.
- Michael Thomas Ford
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Image of Paul Tillich
You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!
- Paul Tillich
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Image of Paul Tillich
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
- Paul Tillich
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Image of Mohammed Morsi
Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.
- Mohammed Morsi
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Image of Niklaus Wirth
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Ni-klows Wirt'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nick-les Worth'. This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
- Niklaus Wirth
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Image of David Spade
Whenever you get on the plane, the flight attendant will always tell you the name of your pilot. Like anyone goes, Oh, he's good.
- David Spade
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Image of Kris Radish
Sisters-the ones we share last names with and the ones we choose-are the lining of every woman's soul.
- Kris Radish
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Image of Mike Thompson
Most people are bad with names. I have learned a trick: Make them laugh and they will never forget you.
- Mike Thompson
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Image of John Simon
The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.
- John Simon
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Image of Carrie Vaughn
What the hell kind of name is Kitty for a werewolf?
- Carrie Vaughn
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Image of Joe R. Lansdale
Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord -- and shotgun do your stuff
- Joe R. Lansdale
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Image of Sivananda
If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.
- Sivananda
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Image of Kirsten Miller
I've been called many things. But I suppose 'the devil' is as good a name as any.
- Kirsten Miller
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Image of Linda Howard
I’m Sam Donovan.” “I know who you are. Mrs. Kulavich told me. I’m Jaine Bright.” “I know. She told me. She even told me how you spell your name.” Now, how on earth had Mrs. Kulavich known that?
- Linda Howard
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Image of Susan Kay
Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.
- Susan Kay
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Image of Adam Yauch
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
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Image of Muddy Waters
He took my music, but he gave me my name.
- Muddy Waters
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Image of Carl Schurz
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.
- Carl Schurz
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Image of Gerard Way
You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU!
- Gerard Way
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Image of Giorgio Moroder
My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.
- Giorgio Moroder
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Image of Larry the Cable Guy
I know I don't want to take the Lord's name in vain, and I don't want to drop any F-bombs.
- Larry the Cable Guy
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Image of Diane Setterfield
There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only to God and to the person who holds it and to very few privileged others. To pronounce such a name either ones own or someone else's is to invite jeopardy. This it seemed was such a name.
- Diane Setterfield
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Image of Walter E. Williams
The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives. After all, only the imagination limits the kind of laws and restrictions that can be written in the name of saving the planet.
- Walter E. Williams
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Image of Natasha Trethewey
What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.
- Natasha Trethewey
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Image of John Bonham
My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.
- John Bonham
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Image of Jack Gantos
When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.
- Jack Gantos
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Image of Christopher Moore
What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?
- Christopher Moore
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Image of Bobby Orr
I'm really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.
- Bobby Orr
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Image of Miroslav Volf
If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.
- Miroslav Volf
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Image of Karen Chance
My name is Cassie Palmer and I’ve cheated death more times than anyone has a right to expect. In the last two months, I’ve been shot, stabbed, beaten and blown up a few dozen times, and that doesn’t count all the magical ways I’ve almost been killed. I’d have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me. I’d have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn’t pushed me first.
- Karen Chance
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Image of B. F. Skinner
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
- B. F. Skinner
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Image of Carl Linnaeus
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
- Carl Linnaeus
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Image of Nathan Myhrvold
The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method.
- Nathan Myhrvold
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Image of Barbra Streisand
I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.
- Barbra Streisand
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Image of Frederic Bastiat
Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.
- Frederic Bastiat
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Image of E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.
- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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Image of Kohta Hirano
In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen.
- Kohta Hirano
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