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Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be. — Henry Ward Beecher

Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party. — Michael Heseltine

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest. — Wallace Stevens

Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell! — Billy Sunday

Names with indeterminate connotation are not to be confounded with names which have more than one connotation, that is to say, ambiguous words. — John Stuart Mill

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too. — Edward Young

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. — Mortimer Adler

It is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt. — Audre Lorde

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together. — Friedrich Schiller

Wherefore all these things are but the names which mortals
have given, believing them to be true — Parmenides

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength. — Peter Ustinov

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live. — George Chapman

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature. — Quintilian

Ambrose Phillips ... who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby. — Thomas B. Macaulay

My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch. — Debi Mazar

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism ... — George Washington

Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it. — Dave Barry

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace. — William Gurnall

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God. — Ernesto Cardenal

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law? — Mahatma Gandhi

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. — Samuel Johnson

So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name! — Lewis Carroll

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name. — Vilfredo Pareto

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached. — Ramakrishna

The name Kylie can be used for Scrabble, as it is an aboriginal word for boomerang. Which is why Ms Minogue is so good at comebacks. — Kathy Lette

There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character. — Emile Durkheim

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names. — Joseph Priestley

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish. — William Makepeace Thackeray

A good name is what is given you by others and that which has been earned by you. — Jack Hyles

Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me. — Pierre Loti

The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed. — Sergey Brin

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps. — F. E. Adcock

Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column. — Frederick Lenz

People are always asking me if I'm Lynyrd Skynyrd or which one's Skynyrd, but I always say, 'Who'd ever have a dumb name like that?' — Ed King

There are ... many ... names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell. — Hadewijch

Language is made up of names of comparable objects, and that which cannot be compared has no name. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names! — Otto Von Bismarck

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie." — Paulo Coelho

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force". — John B. S. Haldane

An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,
Saved others' names, but left his own unsung. — Walter Scott

Of all injustice that is the greatest which goes under the name of law. — Heath L'Estrange

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean? — Bill James

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name. — Richard Chenevix Trench

The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name. — George Herbert

I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names. — Dana Spiotta

an uncertain mythology
in which one hears the names
when the wind stops
of all the false gods — Jean Follain

They were a bit like English taverns, which had effigies instead of names, so that people like Jack, who could not read, could know them. — Neal Stephenson

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men. — Camille Desmoulins

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. — John B. S. Haldane

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one? — Julian Assange

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew). — Arthur Koestler

The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification. — John Stuart Mill

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Chief Wimbe also loved his cat, which was black and white but had no name. In Malawi, only dogs are given names, I don't know why. — William Kamkwamba

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes! — William Hazlitt

Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that. — Thom Yorke

The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The song still remains which names the land over which it sings. — Martin Heidegger

When I have you bent over this couch, which one of your names should I moan? — Teresa Mummert

Some trace in contemporary works of these extraordinary names which had so strongly awakened our curiosity. — Alexandre Dumas

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. — Osbert Sitwell

No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better. — Rene Magritte

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations. — Mackenzie Astin

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless. — Ram Dass

that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of cruelty. If — Marcel Proust

Jesus gave us the victory with which He overcame Satan, and commissioned us to cast out devils in His Name. — Chris Oyakhilome

Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success. — Stanley Hauerwas

Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names. — Helen Wells

Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna. — Francois Mauriac

It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State. — Albert Einstein