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  • Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy
  • One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. -- Evelyn Waugh
  • The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. -- Margaret Atwood
  • The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever. -- Malcolm X
  • Names govern the world. -- Hannah More
  • Names come and names go. -- Neil Gaiman
  • Names are not always what they seem. -- Mark Twain
  • Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language. -- Dale Carnegie
  • Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters. -- Sarah J. Maas
  • Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake. -- Franz von Papen
  • Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. -- Thomas Love Peacock
  • What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names. -- Bo Burnham
  • Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch. -- Robert Morley
  • First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power. -- Neil Gaiman
  • Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you. -- Simon Travaglia
  • Names aren't just coathooks, they're coats. They're the first thing anyone knows about you. -- Nick Harkaway
  • Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson. -- Mark Twain
  • This is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed. -- Lavinia Greenlaw
  • There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember. -- Italo Svevo
  • Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him. -- Bentley Little
  • Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets. -- Hal Duncan
  • Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode. -- Lee Konitz
  • I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character. -- Spike Lee
  • I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life. -- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud. -- Joe Abercrombie
  • Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name -- Claude C. Hopkins
  • People's fates are simplified by their names -- Elias Canetti
  • Once you label me you negate me. -- Soren Kierkegaard
  • Brand names aren't important to me at all. -- Wiz Khalifa
  • Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- Robert Kennedy
  • He lives who dies to win a lasting name. -- Henry Drummond
  • A good name is rather to be chosen than riches. -- Solomon
  • The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. -- Confucius
  • The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. -- William Hazlitt
  • I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
  • And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. -- Jim Morrison
  • It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. -- Oscar Wilde
  • What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. -- William Shakespeare
  • Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. -- Bill Cosby
  • NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example. -- Hanna Rosin
  • Vast databases of names and personal information, sold to thieves by large publicly traded companies, have put almost anyone within reach of fraudulent telemarketers. -- Charles Duhigg
  • We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for. -- Cindy Sheehan
  • I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names. -- Paul Walker
  • Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. -- Muhammad Ali
  • I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names. -- John Perry Barlow
  • 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. -- Salman Rushdie
  • Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage? -- George Augustus Henry Sala
  • Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? -- Marguerite Gardiner
  • A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith. -- Mark Burnett
  • Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people. -- Henry Rollins
  • There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names. -- Giordano Bruno
  • I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be. -- Lord Byron
  • I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this. -- Madonna Ciccone
  • The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. -- Richard Branson
  • Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there. -- Matthew Fox
  • Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant. -- River Phoenix
  • 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
  • Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft. -- Simon Sinek
  • The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle. -- Nelson Mandela
  • Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media. -- Ivan Krastev
  • We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names. -- Iggy Azalea
  • My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names. -- Jane Goodall
  • For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them. -- John Ridley
  • We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration. -- Milan Kundera
  • All names mean something. -- Salman Rushdie
  • Biblical names are hot again. -- Anita Diament
  • Trick names are so ridiculous! -- Shaun White
  • Proper names are rigid designators. -- Saul Kripke
  • Elementary propositions consist of names. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Everybody should customize their names. -- Charles Baxter
  • Certain names always awake certain prejudices. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
  • I collect men with interesting names. -- Sylvia Plath
  • I am terrible with people's names. -- Rob Lowe
  • Satan labels you. God names you. -- Gloria Gaither
  • Loving means getting rid of names. -- Octavio Paz
  • People's fates are simplified by their names. -- Elias Canetti
  • I'm the man of a million names. -- Giancarlo Stanton
  • What is necessary is to rectify names. -- Confucius
  • Indeed there's a woundy luck in names. -- Ben Jonson
  • To love is to undress our names. -- Octavio Paz
  • None of us know our real names. -- Kim Stanley
  • I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. -- Sam Trammell
  • We see only what we have names for. -- Garrett Hardin
  • Domain names and websites are Internet real estate. -- Marc Ostrofsky
  • I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names. -- Joni Mitchell
  • At present our only true names are nicknames. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Everyone's very relaxed about brand names in television. -- John Mulaney
  • Only times and places, only names and ghosts. -- Aldous Huxley
  • They certainly give very strange names to diseases. -- Plato
  • Reality is always the foe of famous names. -- Petrarch
  • Doubt is one of the names of intelligence. -- Jorge Luis Borges
  • We all have names we don't know about. -- Martin Amis
  • You need names to get the movie made. -- Laverne Cox
  • Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
  • All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes -- Tom Waits
  • Company names without clear pronunciation or spelling won't last. -- David Rusenko
  • What's really fun is to write under different names. -- Tom Verlaine
  • I confused things with their names: that is belief. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
  • People who really appreciated animals always asked their names. -- Lilian Jackson Braun
  • Don't call people names you dirty name caller you. -- Roseanne Barr
  • Fate and temperament are the names of a concept. -- Novalis
  • I'll name names, you know I won't hold back. -- Steven Cojocaru
  • Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic. -- Caroline B. Cooney
  • Our names were made for us in another century. -- Richard Brautigan
  • Every name is real. That's the nature of names. -- Jerry Spinelli
  • Teach us the names of what we have destroyed. -- Dana Gioia
  • Fate and character are different names for the same idea. -- Hermann Hesse
  • All the rare and royal names Wormy sheepskin yet retains -- John Millington Synge
  • Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names. -- Umberto Eco
  • Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
  • Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation. -- Angela Carter
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