Names

"A shame; the ones who died without a name."

"I don't want my name on anything."

"In calling his two sons by the names of Gershom and Eliezer, Moses, like Joseph and other righteous men, intended to have the fact of God's help constantly before him. Since his sons would be with him, and he would often address them or call them by name, he would remember his gratitude to God."

"I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die."

"There was a time when that there was no name for God, and there is going to be when he will not have one."

"What is this that is nameless and cannot be identified with either body or mind? If you try to conceive of it, it is beyond thought; if you try to express it, words are exhausted. It appears both foolish and saintly. It is as high as the mountain and as deep as the ocean, yet discloses neither its full height nor depth. It is illuminatively unbound by conditions, displaying a radiance that cannot be discerned by the naked eye. It penetrates beyond thought and has a clarity above the entanglements of speech. It transcends both heaven and earth and is realized only by the entire person."

"Names are the way we humans build relationship, not only with each other but with the living world."

"Let us not get into the habit of names. Names are dangerous."

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousand things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations."

"The unnameable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things."

"The tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be spoken is not the eternal Name. The nameless is the boundary of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of creation. Freed from desire, you can see the hidden mystery. By having desire, you can only see what is visibly real."

"Love is my name."

"The names of worldly things are utterly deceptive, for they turn the heart from what is real to what is unreal. Whoever hears the word god thinks not of what is real but rather of what is unreal. So also with the words father, son, holy spirit, life, light, resurrection, church, and all the rest, people do not think of what is real but of what is unreal, [though] the words refer to what is real. The words [that are] heard belong to this world. [Do not be] deceived. If words belonged to the eternal realm, they would never be pronounced in this world, nor would they designate worldly things. They would refer to what is in the eternal realm."

"Truth brought forth names in the world for us, and no one can refer to truth without names. Truth is one and many, for our sakes, to teach us about the one, in love, through the many."

"The rulers wanted to fool people, since they saw that people have a kinship with what is truly good. They took the names of the good and assigned them to what is not good, to fool people with names and link the names to what is not good. So, as if they were doing people a favor, they took names from what is not good and transferred them to the good, in their own way of thinking. For they wished to take free people and enslave them forever."

"Few perhaps are the days of the just man’s life but an honored name endures forever."

"A good name is better than precious ointment."

"There be of them that have left a name behind them."

"But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings."

"My name is Legion."

"A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches."

"The name of Jehovah is a strong tower. Into it the righteous runs and is given protection."

"Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard; My lips are now forbid to speak That once familiar word."

"Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom; J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rollet un fripon."

"Call a spade a spade."

"He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes."

"I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be."

"Oh, Amos Cottle!—Phœbus! what a name!"

"Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name."

"Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air? Choose thou whatever suits the line: Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, Call me Lalage, or Doris, Only, only, call me thine."

"Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked."

""Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only Brooks of Sheffield," said Mr. Murdstone. I was glad to find it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for at first I really thought that it was I."

"Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger.""

"The dodgerest of all the dodgers."

"Called me wessel, Sammy—a wessel of wrath."

"He lives who dies to win a lasting name."

"Above any Greek or Roman name."

"Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham."

"The blackest ink of fate was sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot."

"I cannot say the crow is white, But needs must call a spade a spade."

""Whose name was writ in water!" What large laughter Among the immortals when that word was brought! Then when his fiery spirit rose flaming after, High toward the topmost heaven of heavens up-caught! "All hail! our younger brother!" Shakespeare said, And Dante nodded his imperial head."

"My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time."

"One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die."

"A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man."

"Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith."

"My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home."

"And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest."

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

"Ramp up my genius, be not retrograde, But boldly nominate a spade a spade."

"Have heard her sigh and soften out the name."