name quotes

Our name for problems is significant.We call them headaches.You take a powder and theyare gone.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
Quoted in David S McLellan Dean  Acheson: The State DepartmentYears (1976).

I bind into myself today The strong name of theTrinity, By invocation of the same TheThree in One and One inThree.

-Alexander, Cecil Frances
  'St Patrick's Breastplate', his translation from the Irish.

Ningue¤  m no cais tem um nome so¤  .Todos te"  m tambe¤  m um apelido ou abreviam o nome, ou o aumentam, ou lhe acrescentam qualquer coisa que recorde uma histo¤  ria, uma luta, um amor. No one onthe dockshasjust onename.Everybody has a nickname too, or the name is shortened, or lengthened, or something is added that recalls a tale, a fight, a woman.

-Amado,Jorge
  Mar morto (Sea of Death,1984),'Iemanja¤ ' .

There was a girl in our town, Silk an'satin was her gown, Silk an'satin, gold an' velvet, Guess her name, three times I've telled it.

-Anonymous
Quoted in  James Orchard Halliwell  The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842). The answer, of course, is'Ann'.

My name hasgotten to be a household wordöat least in certain households. I think there are now people who know my name, but don't know what Ido.I'm famous for being famous.

-Ashbery,John Lawrence
  Interview in PN Review, no.46.

I bequeath my soul to God† For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  From his will.

The terror of his name has stretched itself Wherever there is sun.

-Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher,John
A King and No King, act 2, sc.2.

It isaswholly wrong toblame Marx for what wasdonein his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his.

-Benn,Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood)
Quoted in  Alan Freeman The Benn Heresy (1982).

And God spake all these words, saying,Iamthe L thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that isinheaven above, or that isin the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thoushalt nottakethename of the L thy God invain; for the L will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember thesabbath day, to keep it holy. Six daysthou shalt labour and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the L thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the L made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the L blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long uponthelandwhichtheL thy Godgiveththee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDORDORDORDORDORDExodus 20:1^17.

  But if ye shall at all turn from following me† Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and thishouse, which Ihavehallowed formy name, will Icast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 9:6^7.

O L our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy gloryabove the heavens.Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 8:1^2.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the L our God.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 20:7.

Bless the L,O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.Bless the L,O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies;Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms103:1^5.

Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the L: we have blessed you out of the house of the L.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms118:26.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son isgiven: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,Counseller,The mighty God, The everlasting Father,The Prince of Peace.Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, uponthethrone of David, and uponhis kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the L of hosts will perform this.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 9:6^7.

Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 43:1^2.

Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus 44:14.

And he asked him,What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Mark 5:9.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: thosethatthougavest me Ihave kept, and noneof them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John17:12.

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 4:12.

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