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And I dream of the days when work was scrappy, And rare in our pockets the mark of the mint, When we were angryand poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.
— 1915 'Song of Defeat'.
Belove' d, what are names but air? Choose thou whatever suits the line; Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, Call me Lalage or Doris, Only, only call meThine.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— 1799 'Names', a translation from G E Lessing's German original (first published in the Morning Post,1803).
Row upon row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element.
— 1948 Poems1922-1947,'Ode to the Confederate Dead'.
Though they [philosophers] write contemptu gloriæ, yet as Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books.
robert burton— Section 2, member 3, subsection 14.
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
george washington carver— Quoted in Linda O. McMurray, George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol (Oxford University Press, 1982, ISBN 0-195-03205-5, 382 pages), p. 106
Mr. Iwata, perhaps this year I can just take the names and you can kick the....you know...
reggie fils-aime— Source: E³ 2006 Press Conference, Youtube
In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.
kim jong-il— "Let us advance under the banner of Marxism-Leninism and the Juche Idea" (3 May 1983)
This is a human form in which every Divine entity, every Divine principle, that is to say, all the names and forms ascribed by man to God, are manifest... You are very fortunate that you have the chance to experiences the bliss of the vision of the form, which is the form of all gods, now, in this life itself.
sathya sai baba— Statement (1968) as quoted in Sathya Sai Speaks Volume VIII, p. 99f
Before my face the picture hangs,That daily should put me in mindOf those cold names and bitter pangs,That shortly I am like to find:But yet, alas! full little IDo think hereon that I must die.
robert southwell— Line 1; p. 136.
Whispering from her [Oxford's] towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age...Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Matthew Arnold— Preface (Essays in Criticism, first series (1865))
Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.
james fenimore cooper— On Language
Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?”
Alain de Botton— p. 112 (Status Anxiety (2004))
"Teach us the names of what we have destroyed."
dana gioia— "A California Requiem"
Will we ever again be able to view a public object with civic dignity, unencumbered by commercial messages? Must city buses be fully painted as movable ads, lampposts smothered, taxis festooned, even seats in concert halls sold one by one to donors and embellished in perpetuity with their names on silver plaques?
stephen jay gould— "The Lying Stones of Marrakech", p. 25
I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; one, that I have lost all the names, the other, that I have spent all the money.
samuel johnson— 1781, p. 477, Referring to subscribers to his edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare, with Notes (1765).
It was an All-in-One and One-in-All of limitless being and self not merely a thing of one Space-Time continuum, but allied to the ultimate animating essence of existence's whole unbounded sweep the last, utter sweep which has no confines and which outreaches fancy and mathematics alike. It was perhaps that which certain secret cults of earth have whispered of as YOG-SOTHOTH, and which has been a deity under other names; that which the crustaceans of Yuggoth worship as the Beyond-One, and which the vaporous brains of the spiral nebulae know by an untranslatable Sign...
h. p. lovecraft— "Through the Gates of the Silver Key " - written with E. Hoffman Price, October 1932 - Apr 1933; first published in Weird Tales, Vol. 24, No. 1 (July 1934)
In a potter's shop there are vessels of different shapes and forms pots, jars, dishes, plates, etc., but all are made of the same clay. So God is one, but He is worshipped in different ages and climes under different names and aspects.
ramakrishna— p. 458 (Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960))
First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.
john rawls— Chapter III, Section 23, pg. 131
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
William Butler Yeats— Letter to the Editor, Dublin Daily Express (27 February 1895)
But names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
— Chapter 4, "Ayesha" (Quotes)
Systems thinking plays a dominant role in a wide range of fields from industrial enterprise and armaments to esoteric topics of pure science. Innumerable publications, conferences, symposia and courses are devoted to it. Professions and jobs have appeared in recent years which, unknown a short while ago, go under names such as systems design, systems analysis, systems engineering and others.
— Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1968) General System Theory, p. 3
Those who died so cruel a death, who rendered such important services to God and to their emperor, and who gave light to those who lived in darkness, ought to have had their names perpetuated in letters of gold; but they were never remunerated! They did not even obtain wealth, although this is the goal of all men! Often quoted : to serve God and His Majesty, to bring light to those who were in darkness, and to grow rich, as all men desire to do
— Bernal Díaz de Castillo, True History of the Conquest of New Spain (ca. 1570), on Spanish soldiers killed in Mexico
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
— Revelation 13:8.
In the past, the system included all the names that were registered. However, in the next phase, it will be optional. The amendments seek to enhance the system to make it better and fulfill all its objectives.
— Lt. Col. Ahmad al-Laheedan, the spokesman of Saudi Arabia’s Passports Department on the program of Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia, quoted on Saratogian Opinion, "Another View: Saudi Arabia: Now slightly less terrible for women", January 28, 2014.
I have many names, and none of them matter.
— Sam in a sermon to his followers.
So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God forms or symbols , names, God-men. All religions have these, but you find that they want to fight with each other...These are the external forms of devotion, through which man has to pass; but if he is sincere , if he really wants to reach the truth , he goes higher than these, to a plane where forms are as nothing.
— Swami Vivekananda, in "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 2/Bhakti or Devotion".
names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
— Galileo Galilei, as quoted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) by Stillman Drake, p. 92
