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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.
I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.
Stephen Vincent Benet— 1927 'American Names'.
Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
charles barkley— Verified on Late Late Show Oct 22 2004
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)
The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.
ralph waldo emerson— The Conservative, via Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Cycles of American History (Houghton Mifflin, 1986) p. 23
There are names written in her immortal scroll, at which FAME blushes!
william hazlitt— No. 53 (Lecture VIII, "On the Living Poets")
Among all the disputes and uncertainties of the ethnographers about the races of Europe, one fact stands out clearly – namely, that we can distinguish a race of northerly distribution and origin, characterized physically by fair color of hair and skin and eyes, by tall stature and dolichocephaly (i.e. long shape of head), and mentally by great independence of character, individual initiative, and tenacity of will. Many names have been used to denote this type, ... . It is also called the Nordic type.
william mcdougall— The Group Mind (p.159, Arno Press, 1973).
I have many names, and none of them matter.
— Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light (1967)
Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings.
ludwig wittgenstein— p. 67e (Culture and Value (1980))
I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.
buckley, william f., jr.— 1963 statement, as quoted in The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 82Variant: I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty of Harvard University.Meet the Press (1965), as quoted in The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 82The numbers cited in paraphrases of this quote often vary from 100 to 2000.
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
Coincidences , good and bad, contretemps , seals, ciphers, mottoes, omens, anniversaries, names , dreams , are all of a certain importance to her. Her letters are often dated on some marked anniversary of her own, or of her correspondent's calendar. She signalized saints' days, "All-Souls," and "All-Saints," by poems, which had for her a mystical value.
margaret fuller— Ralph Waldo Emerson in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852), p. 220.
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
The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
— The last Leaf; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg— Referring to a diagrammatic "Compass of Motives", as quoted in Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten [Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious] (1905) by Sigmund Freud, as translated by James Strachey (1960), p. 101; also quoted by Freud in an open letter to Albert Einstein, Why War? (1933).Variant translation: The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "food-food-fame" or "fame-fame-food".
We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently …
bill mollison— chapter 4.8 (Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988))
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
There are... many... names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.
vitruvius— Chapter VI, Sec. 10
These, Sir Edward Coke says, are all the names of dignity in this kingdom (alluding to the peerage, baronetage and knights), esquires and gentlemen being only names of worship ."
— 2 Inst. 667. Steph. Comm. (9th ed.), Vol. 2, 617.
"My Name is Reggie . I'm about kicking ass and taking names -- and we're about making games ."
— Reggie Fils-Aime, E3 2004
The most important feature therefore of this dancer’s form is that its text is constantly evolving and gets ‘texted’ on the dancers body, and inspired by his immediate frame of reference. That is the reason why many of the hand gestures, central to Indian dance, have evolved from local traditions and bear vernacular names ( Hairi Haath , Mishing Bihu Haath , Chhatradhari Haath , Roja Haath , Mujura Haath and Rati Haath ). The same holds true of the gaits called Khoz , which go by names such as Balimahi (wagtail), Mukuti (egret) and Buguli (crane).
— By Arshiya Sethi in "sattriya : the redefining of a tradition."
The names of the genuine Macedonians and those born of Macedonian parents, especially the names of the elit class and nobles, in their formation and phonology are purely Greek.
— Otto Hoffmann, German linguist, "Die Makedonen, Ihre Sprache und Ihr Volkstum", Göttingen, 1906
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?
— Part IV, Chapter V (p. 386) (The Privilege of the Sword (2006))
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.
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)
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
— Woodrow Wilson, address, Unveiling of the Statue to the Memory of Commodore John Barry, Washington (May 16, 1914).
When we were happy we had other names.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, King John, Act V, scene 4, line 7.
I would to God, thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.
— Falstaff, scene ii
And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names.
— Philip Faulconbridge, scene i
First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. names have power.
— Neil Gaiman, in lines for John Constantine, in The Books of Magic : The Invisible Labyrinth (1990).
