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What we name must answer to us; we can shape it if not control it.
To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one's becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.
Names made a thing real.
A name is a powerful thing.
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
Who can give a man this, his own name?
A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
Gave their (right) names to things without seeing them;
Naming, thinks Jacob, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance.
That which endures forever; it is released from nebulous name-giving.
The name one gives is inessential.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.
Names come and names go.-- Neil Gaiman
Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.
This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a murder, an erasing, and it is not surprising that when people have felt themselves prey to it (conquest), among their first acts of liberation is to change their names ...
Names are not always what they seem.-- Mark Twain
A thing named is a thing tamed.
Titles can be as dangerous as names,
When they found me, I had no name. Because I had no name, they decided to give me one. It's not my real name, but I have since grown a fondness to it. Now it is mine.
Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
Names are masks, they get in the way.
What is necessary is to rectify names.
Everyone of us has a new name that winks at us daily because there are rivers of life in our bellies, we just need our mentors to help us to give birth to those new names.
Names are important, you know
Whatever you do gives you the name it gives.
Why would you want my given name?"
"Because I'd like to call out your given name when I thrust into you."
~Dante
A name is a solemn thing ...
I want you to know my name.
The name I was given, not the title I took for myself.
Will you have it?
"Yes"
"Aleksander
Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,
and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock
like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it
and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint
or a pile of rubble.
They say that nameless things change constantly - that names fix them in place like pins.
Patriarchy is having the power to name.
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.
Proper names are poetry in the raw.
Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
A name does not make a person...A person makes a name
Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.
Just 'cause a book don't have a title, don't mean it don't have a name.
Names like clouds. Names like forests. Names like ever unfolding mathematical structures - names that begat themselves, in dreams of recursion. Names that split the world in two. Names that would drive a nail through your sanity.
Tried to put shame in my game to make a name,
I'mma put it on a bullet ... put it in your brain.
There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.
I need a name."
"No one knows your name."
"Do you plan on yelling 'hey you' every time you need to get my attention?
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
Once you can name something, you're conscious of it. You have power over it. You're in control. You own it.
Names are powerful things. They act as an identity marker and a kind of map, locating you in time and geography. More than that, they can be a compass.
There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.
Without a name made in our mouths, an animal or a place struggles to find purchase in our minds or our hearts.
Ish #28 "Give you child a name with meaning.
A thing as important in your life as what could kill you had ought to have a name but no sense wasting a good one on it. Then
I'm, like, really bad at remembering names.
To name is to dominate, to categorize, to subjugate and, quite literally, to objectify
Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.
Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.
I have a little name. That's why people can remember it.
Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.
People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.
The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.
I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.
A name is a powerful thing. It sets one apart and gives significance.
It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly.
Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names." There
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.
What's in a name? Sometimes a lot of real work.
In his head he felt the confused whirling of images seeking a name. Words, sounds, surged up inside him, clean and clear, and settled on everything around him. He named, and saw what he named recognize itself.
Shouldn't you be asking for my name first?-- Kip Fulbeck
Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
Nobody gets to name you. You are not forgettable. You are not replaceable. You are not your pain. You are sacred and special and alive.
Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, names do not remain the same - even if they don't change.
I wish to remain nameless
And live without shame
'Cause what's in a name, Oh
I still remain the same
I'm not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.
I am terrible with people's names.
We all have names we don't know about.-- Martin Amis
Names are unique sounds and cadences of words that are attached to one specific individual-sort of like a kind of theme music.
What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.
What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.
Vanity, vanity, nothing but vanity: the itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things.
A good name is what is given you by others and that which has been earned by you.
What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into the realm beyond words ... It is like that small mirror in the fairy tales - you glance in it and what you see is not yourself; for an instant you glimpse the Inaccessible, where no horse or magic carpet can take you. And the soul cries out for it.
First, our names shape us, and we shape our names in turn.
For a true name holds true power.
Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.
And so with all things: names were vital and important.
At present our only true names are nicknames.
To make a name in the language of the Bible is to construct an identity for ourselves. We either get our name - our defining essence, security, worth, and uniqueness - from what God has done for us and in us (Revelation 2:17), or we make a name through what we can do for ourselves.
Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
Oh, the power that lurks in the naming of names.
If you will not choose a name," Mother Petra told five-year-old Girl from behind her enormous desk, "and if you will not answer to any we choose for you, then you will have no name at all." And
I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it.
The fourth principal division of names, is into positive and negative. Positive, as man, tree, good; negative, as not-man, not-tree, not-good. To every positive concrete name, a corresponding negative one might be framed.
You need a name."
I covered the receiver for a moment. "We need a team name."
"Hunters," Raphael said.
"Valiant Knights of the Fur," Dali said.
"Justice Group," Jim said. "Since Justice League is taken."
"Fools." Doolittle shook his head.
"Fools," I said into the receiver.
Some people think what you're supposed to do in life is fill yourself up with loads of things like names, the more the better. But that's not how it works.
Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.
I have a name," I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder.
"Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel," he said, trying it out in different ways. "No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!" he said in a high falsetto. "It's Rachel! Run! Hide!
Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.
A name is simply a noun used to distinguish one person from another. But it's amazing how much baggage can be packed into a single noun. ~ Grayson van Court
When I ask you who you are, you'd better say my fucking name.
To name her is to sink her," he told me. "That which we name takes greater weight than the sea it displaces. Ask any shipwreck.
A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
Names are keys that open corridors no longer fresh in the mind, but nonetheless familiar in the heart.
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.