Names Quotes - Page 28

• Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Shut Up, Someday

  Jonathan Lethem (2011). “Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.212, Vintage

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• Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Integrity, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Mean, Rivers, Numbers

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.109, Hamilton Books

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• How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?

  Elie Wiesel

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.101, Penguin UK

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• These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Self, Voice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.42, 谷月社

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• God the Eternal Father did not give [the] first great commandment because He needs us to love Him. His power and glory are not diminished should we disregard, deny, or even defile His name. His influence and dominion extend through time and space independent of our acceptance, approval, or admiration."No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God!"For what we love determines what we seek."What we seek determines what we think and do."What we think and do determines who we are—and who we will become.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Independent, Acceptance

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• Is my name dorothy? No Then why do u think munchkins could help me?

  Lisi Harrison

  Thinking, Helping, Help Me

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• You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Want, Bears, Said

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• During the night, while Bull and Lucy slept, Edward, with ever-open eyes, stared up at the constellations. He said their names, and then he said the names of the people who loved him. He started with Abilene, and then went on to Nellie and Lawrence and from there to Bull and Lucy, and then he ended again with Abilene: Abilene, Nellie, Lawrence, Bull, Lucy, Abilene. See? Edward told Pellegrina. I am not like the princess. I know about love.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Princess, Eye, Night

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”, p.84, Candlewick Press

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• I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out 'The Leader of the Southern Shapechanger Faction.' What should I call you?" "Lord." I rolled my eyes. He shrugged. "It's short.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Eye, Leader

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.39, Penguin

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• Speaking the Lord’s name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use foul language. We do not curse or defame. We do not use the Lord’s name in vain. It is not difficult to become perfect in avoiding a swearing habit, for if one locks his mouth against all words of cursing,... he is en route to perfection in that matter.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Perfect, Church, Locks

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• I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Memories, Fate, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.326, Vintage

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• Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.

  Neil Gaiman

  Following Instructions, Remember, Found

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut’s five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me.

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Children, Nuts

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• My name is Zia Rashid.” She tilted her head as if listening. Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from the ceiling, and the slithering sounds of scorpion doubled in volume behind us. “And right now,” Zia continued, sounding a bit disappointed, “I must save your miserable lives.

  Rick Riordan

  Dust, Listening, Ceilings

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• We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

  George Eliot

  People, Littles, Sane

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.429, Broadview Press

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• It's nice to see you again, Laura." "Thank you, Mrs. T-" "No, no, no. Please, my name is-" "Mud," I suggested. "Mud Barfbag Taylor. Call her Asshat for short." ~Laura, Antonia, Betsy

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Nice, Mud, Antonia

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• when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

  Mark Twain

  Hunting, Giving, Comfort

  Mark Twain (2011). “No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger”, p.130, Univ of California Press

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• Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

  J. K. Rowling

  Use, Increase, Dumbledore Book

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• Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dark, World, Satan

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• I guessed his name was Face of Horror. I wondered how long it had taken his mom to think of that. Bob? No. Sam? No. How about Face of Horror?

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Taken, Thinking

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• Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Jars, Fruit, Whisky

  Flannery O'Connor (2007). “Wise Blood: A Novel”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive.

  Philip Pullman

  Law, Forgiving, Listening

  Philip Pullman (2009). “The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU!

  Gerard Way

  People, Looks, Band

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• In the far corner, a tenor began to sing, Zsadist's crystal-clear voice sailing up toward the warrior paintings on the ceiling far, far above them all. At first John didn't know what the song was...although if he'd been asked what his name was, he would have said Santa Claus, or Luther Vandross, or Teddy Roosevelt. Maybe even Joan Collins.

  J.R. Ward

  Song, Warrior, Zsadist

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2960, Penguin

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