Names Quotes - Page 25

• In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

  Harry S. Truman

  Giving, Campaigns, Opponents

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Night, Soul, Lips

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• She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Humour

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• The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Love Is, Fire

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 4 (1942)

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• Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lonely, Stars, Heart

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Writing, Heart

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.202, Macmillan

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• 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humorous

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• I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.

  Albert Camus

  Yesterday, Long, Tomorrow

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.80, Vintage

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• Richard did not believe in angels, he never had. He was damned if he was going to start now. Still, it was much easier not to believe in something when it was not actually looking directly at you and saying your name.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Angel, Easier

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• You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Bird, Looks

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.68, Princeton University Press

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• You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Mean, Over You

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• This earth, burnished by hearing the name, is so certain of love,
that the sky bends unceasingly down, to greet its own light.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Light, Sky, Earth

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• I know someone loves me from how they say my name. Like with my mom and dad, when they say "Benjamin" it's like my name is safe in their mouth.

  David Ebershoff

  Mom, Dad, Mouths

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• Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Daughter, Art

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin

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• Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

  Eugene Ionesco

  Crime, Submission, Committed

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• Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Thinking, Grace, Mind

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.116, Dial Press

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• Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

  J. K. Rowling

  Strong Women, Destiny, Choices

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• Max Rose: Vo? What kind of name is that? Spader: What kind of name is Rose? Isn't that some kind of flower?

  D. J. MacHale

  Flower, Rose, Max

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• The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Makeup, Want, Stones

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Surfacing”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like," they say to me, "but you will arive at another Trude, absolutely the same, detail by detail. The world is covered by a sole Trude which does not begin and does not end. Only the names of the airport changes.

  Italo Calvino

  Airports, Details, Doe

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• No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.

  Marcel Proust

  People, Doubt, Elements

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.808, Delphi Classics

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• Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?

  Ray Bradbury

  Team, Reading, Home

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, People, Missing

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.43, A&C Black

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• Everybody should customize their names.

  Charles Baxter

  Should

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.153, Vintage

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• I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

  Walt Whitman

  God, Faith, Letters

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.170, University of Iowa Press

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