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Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!?whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age? Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Matthew Arnold— 1865 Of Oxford. Essays in Criticism First Series, preface.
'We two,'she said,'will seek the groves Where the lady Mary is, With her five handmaidens, whose names Are five sweet symphonies, Cecily,Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret and Rosalys.'
Dante Gabriel Rossetti— 1870 Poems,'The Blessed Damozel', stanza18.
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
harlan ellison— Paladin of the Lost Hour (1985)
No: by the names inscribed in History's page,names that are England's noblest heritage,names that shall live for yet unnumbered yearsShrined in our hearts with Cressy and Poictiers;Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,But leave us still our old nobility.
— England's Trust, part iii, line 227, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.
randal marlin— Chapter Two, History Of Propaganda, p. 50
You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.
hunter s. thompson— Letter to Judy Stellings (18 November 1956), p. 30
I have many names, and none of them matter.
— Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light (1967)
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one’s self became reluctance to assert one’s self, became forgiveness, love of one’s enemies. Misery became a distinction.
georg brandes— An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889, pg. 31-32)
The director, whose name is Pitof, was probably issued with two names at birth and would be wise to use the other one on his next project.
roger ebert— Review of Catwoman (23 July 2004)
When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.
james anthony froude— Arthur's commentary
And the Science of them, is the true and onely Moral Philosophy. For Moral Philosophy is nothing else but the Science of what is Good , and Evill , in the conversation, and Society of mankind. Good , and Evill , are names that signify our Appetites, and Aversions; which in different tempers, customes, and doctrines of men, are different:
thomas hobbes— The First Part, Chapter 15, p. 79
Our theories stand. We both see clearly; we know what’s right. Even if it’s not always possible to act on it, don’t you think it matters to be able to call things by their true names?
ellen kushner— Part IV, Chapter V (p. 386)
"Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names ," the Black Pope was saying, and now his head was quite powdered with snow. "It used to be only the English who excelled in the deception of words. Then the French went even beyond them, and now the whole world is adept at it."
r. a. lafferty— Ch. 5 (The Flame is Green (1971))
I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.
josé martí— I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273
The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.
Tacitus— Book III, 76.
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement. For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
benjamin tucker— ¶ 4
The matter lies before the eyes of all ; everybody sees it, touches it, loves it, but knows it not. It is glorious and vile, precious and of small account, and is found everywhere... But, to be brief, our Matter has as many names as there are things in this world ; that is why the foolish know it not.
— The Golden Tract concerning the Philosopher's Stone in the Musaeum Hermeticum
I have many names, and none of them matter.
— Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light (1967)
The British in India had called Shimla by various names Viceroy’s Shooting Box, Abode of the Little Tin Gods and even Mount Olympus.
— Raghuvendra Tanwar, in "Shimla : Another age, another time".
"My Name is Reggie . I'm about kicking ass and taking names -- and we're about making games ."
— Reggie Fils-Aime, E3 2004
As the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, "Adsum!" and fell back. It was the word we used at school, when names were called; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of The Master.
william makepeace thackeray— William Makepeace Thackeray, Newcomes, Book II, Chapter XLII.
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans we are federalists.
— Thomas Jefferson, inaugural address (March 4, 1801); in Andrew A. Lipscomb, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1904), vol. 3, p. 319.
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
Robert Burns— Robert Burns, Epistle to J. L.——k.
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage ; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
— As quoted in Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy (1988) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136.
There are... many... names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.
— Chapter VI, Sec. 10 (Book I)
Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.
— Scott, Waverley, Chapter XIII.
I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, scene 2, line 92.
All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.
— Martin Buber, in I and Thou (1923).
I would to God, thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.
— Falstaff, scene ii
So our lives In acts exemplarie, not only winne Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous Deedes, by which wee live.
George Chapman— George Chapman, Bussy d'Ambois, Act I, scene 1.
