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“We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Eve...”
“It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”
“All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.”
“More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.”
“It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.”
“I don't think you can name one diet I haven't done.”
“I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name. ”
“Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.”
“Pond's is a name that everyone is familiar with, and I know that I can trust them when it comes to skincare.”
“I marketed pens - on the phone. But the beauty of the gig was that you had to call these strangers and say, 'Hi, how ya doing?' You made up a name, like, 'Hey, it's Edward Quartermaine from Califor...”
“When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.”
“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
“Hollywood studios bury that stuff - actors who punch directors in the face and try to run producers over with cars - insanity, criminal behavior. But the studios are invested in that star, they can...”
“In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.”
“In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.”
“Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.”
“I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and v...”
“I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.”
“Name, no, nothing is namable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.”
“Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.”
