Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
~By George Burns ~
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.
~By Richard Branson ~
Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.
~By Norman Granz ~
I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese.
~By Duong Van Minh ~
I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.
~By Heinrich Himmler ~
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
You remember all those phrases about how "these people" - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.
~By Neil Sheehan ~
One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
~By Earl Monroe ~
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
~By Duke of Wellington ~
So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.
~By Joan Van Ark ~
Proper names are rigid designators.
~By Saul Kripke ~
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.
~By Pam Grier ~
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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?
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.
~By Franz von Papen ~
I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.
~By George Saintsbury ~
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
~By Marcel Proust ~
They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
~By Ike Turner ~
I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin.
~By Tobe Hooper ~
And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.
~By Wilfred Burchett ~
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.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.
~By Italo Svevo ~
The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand.
~By John Whitehead ~
Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.
~By Robert Morley ~
And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
~By Barack Obama ~
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
~By Enrico Fermi ~
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
~By Wilfred Burchett ~
At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.
~By Carl Rakosi ~
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
~By Ian Williams ~
Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.
~By Muhammad Yunus ~
It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
~By Bob Dole ~
The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role.
~By Elizabeth Pena ~
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
~By Harrison Birtwistle ~
The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.
~By Norman Granz ~
Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.
~By Josh McDowell ~
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
~By Thomas Chandler Haliburton ~
Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.
~By John Strachan ~
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.
~By Moshe Dayan ~
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
~By Jim Morrison ~
The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.
~By Eric Brown ~
I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.
~By John Oates ~
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.
~By Caryl Chessman ~
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.
~By Louis Stokes ~
I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.
~By Bob Graham ~
The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973.
~By Bo Gritz ~
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
~By Billy Sunday ~
Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
~By Brad Bird ~
The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
~By Ho Chi Minh ~
With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
~By Edward Dmytryk ~
He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.
~By James Brown ~
People's fates are simplified by their names.
~By Elias Canetti ~
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
~By William Westmoreland ~
We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.
~By Ruben Studdard ~
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
~By William Westmoreland ~
Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.
~By Jay London ~
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.
~By River Phoenix ~
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
~By Anita Diament ~
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.
~By Jon Postel ~
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
~By Derek Jarman ~
And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
~By Cornelia Funke ~
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
~By Maya Lin ~
The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
~By George Wald ~
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
~By Gordon Lightfoot ~
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
~By Mary MacLane ~
The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
~By Darrell Royal ~
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names.
~By Joe Gold ~
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
~By Thomas Love Peacock ~
Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.
~By Andy Van Slyke ~
Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
~By Robert Hall ~
Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
~By Martin Bormann ~
What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.
~By Penelope Lively ~
Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.
~By Piper Laurie ~
My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.
~By Curtis Lemay ~
My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.
~By Mickey Spillane ~
I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!
~By Jesse Helms ~
Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
~By Charles MacArthur ~
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
~By Mel Brooks ~
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.
~By John James Audubon ~
And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
~By Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~
George Murphy tagged that name "Butch" on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names on people that didn't fit them.
~By Cesar Romero ~
We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names.
~By Paul Reiser ~
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