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There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul. — Alison Croggon

Don't underestimate the value of beginning a headline by naming the people you want to reach. — John Caples

Sometimes Mrs. Turpin occupied herself at night naming the classes of people. — Flannery O'Connor

Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing. — Ned Beauman

I'm not a synonym - I'm a proper noun. — Clarice Lispector

She started naming the fish. 'Loppy, Troppy, Hoppy, Soppy, Boppy, Floppy, Moppy and Roppy. — Deepika Kumaaraguru

We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects. — Alistair Cockburn

She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it ... — Thomm Quackenbush

From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power. — Casey Miller

Yep, Gin and Brandi. Call me crazy, but naming your daughters after alcoholic beverages is just asking for trouble. — Kelley Armstrong

My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl. — Dylan Lauren

Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours. — Nihad Sirees

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. — Richard Eyre

You give a dog a bad name, and that dog is bad for life. — Eleanor Catton

When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE! — Demetri Martin

Babynamescube is a world famous baby naming and pareting website. Find beautiful and trendy names with meaning and origin. Also get parenting advice. — Linda

An example of naming which can easily prompt out-of-context interpretation is a hypothetical method name like harvest_dead_children(); — Anonymous

Whoever was responsible for naming the fae races should really have put more thought into making them pronounceable when drunk. — Seanan McGuire

Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech. — Confucius

As the semantic engineer, your job is naming the parts and tightening nuts and bolts. I suggest you get back to your office and do that - right now! — John Sladek

To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself. — Gregory Woods

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting. — Philip Gibbs

The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things. — Lao-Tzu

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don't need to be wasted on naming things. — Doug Cooper

Vanity, vanity, nothing but vanity: the itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. — Edward Abbey

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it. — Cory Doctorow

Catharine Victoria Santoro di Valleria." Cat blinked. "Why are you 'full naming' me? — Marianne Knightly

We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'. — Rostam Batmanglij

The problem with naming a No. 2 is you really want to throw all your weight behind the guy who is going to be the leader. — Charlie Bell

Naming an emotion begins the process of regulating it and reflecting on it. — Sue Johnson

I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists! — Anne Hathaway

They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother. — John Crowley

You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it? — Bruce Chatwin

I want to get a job naming kitchen appliances. That seems easy; refrigerator, toaster, blender. You just say what the thing does and add "er". — Mitch Hedberg

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear. — Bruce Lee

Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful. — Charles Wright

Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible. — Libba Bray

With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. — Edward Dmytryk

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind — Elias Canetti

If teams had to name themselves honestly, they'd all be the Pimple-Faced Teenagers. — Eric Berlin

Naming nature doesn't tame nature. — Cameron Conaway

Why does naming a thing give it so much power? — Ellen Sussman

From the day whe arrived at her husband's home, no one called her by her name. — Lauretta Ngcobo

Tiberius Nero Blackthorn. I think his parents may have gone a little overboard. It's like naming someone Magnificent Bastard. — Cassandra Clare

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age. — Chris Ware

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real. — Brad Bird

Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it. — Lloyd Alexander

I was thinking about naming my child Kanye. — ASAP Rocky

I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log. — Rick Yancey

My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - "
"I am NOT naming our child Buford ... — Cassandra Clare

The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author. — Michelle M. Pillow

Perceive no opposition between precision and mystery, or between naming and not-knowing. — Robert Macfarlane

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I named him Poodle, beginning a long tradition of functional pet naming. — John Elder Robison

Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief. — Hillel Neuer

I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy. — Noah Wyle

He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood. — Ayn Rand

NAMING YOUR STORIES Identify your mind's favorite stories, then — Russ Harris

He was beautiful in a way that hurt me, but it was the sweetest pain I ever knew, better even than the scars I took on my naming day. — Ann Aguirre

Naming can limit as well as empower. — Loraine Hutchins

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. — Mary Daly

I like naming characters. — Roddy Doyle

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. — Harper Lee

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. — Jim Capaldi

Naming, thinks Jacob, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance. — David Mitchell

I collect words and phrases for naming the children of my brush. — Gene Black

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace. — Alice Hoffman

I didn't even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn't need one to know her. (Eric) — Shannon A. Thompson

First off, what the hell kind of name is that?
Wow, her parents were pretentious naming their daughter Temperance!
What the actual fuck? — Joanne McClean

Language itself is a major resource in the naming of what cannot be named — David Simpson

I don't know if the police of naming statements would agree with this. — Roman Abramovich

And once you say this is true, you start naming the beast that hurts you - so I started doing this. Other truths come out. — Terry Gross

Being a humble person, she gave her pie shop a humble name - PIE. — Sarah Weeks

We're OConchobhairs and they're our friends. Dad always said that what our name means - friend of the wolves. — Kirsty Murray

There is no word in any traditional European language which does not either denigrate or patronize the urban poor it is naming. That is power. — John Berger

Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one. — Colin Trevorrow

None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to naming one, there was another on the way. — George Burns

If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well. — George Friedman

Why don't you join us? You can be Chief in Charge of Running Away Scared and Naming Things. -Allie — Rebecca Espinoza

But seriously, what were his parents thinking? Naming their son Richard Updike? Did they want him to get beaten up his entire adolescence? — Carolyn McCray

Craig, he says, in that tone that's like, I'm one step away from middle-naming you. — Hannah Moskowitz

She marveled at the futility of his method: he was acting as if, by naming her opinion in advance, he would make her unable to alter it. — Ayn Rand

Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose. — George Kaiser

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible. — Ann Voskamp

You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it. — Ray Bradbury

Naming a book after a person was a standard way of reflecting that person's beliefs or representing his or her school of thought. — Reza Aslan

Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves. — Jane Leavy

He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation. — Geraldine Brooks

Julius Caesar's wife, who said to Julius, We are not naming our son Sid! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

As noted, naming a book after someone significant was a common way of honoring that person and reflecting his views. — Reza Aslan

Oh, the power that lurks in the naming of names. — Robin Hobb

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission. — Theodore Bikel

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic. — Donna J. Haraway

Oh. I didn't know that." "So, you're naming your dog Feathers because ... — Catherine Ryan Hyde

The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence. — Carl Van Vechten