Name Quotes - page 3

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. (John Stuart Mill)

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

Edward Young

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Louis Pasteur

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Lord Byron

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Rabindranath Tagore

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

John Keats

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

Horatio Nelson

My name is Bono and I am a rock star.

Bono

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Aristophanes

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know. (Arthur Conan Doyle)

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

George Strait

I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry.

Gene Vincent

I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.

Benoît Mandelbrot

I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.

Sigourney Weaver

My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books.

John Grisham

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

James Thurber

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

Edward Snowden

Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer. (Thomas Carlyle)

Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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