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Namely Quotes (page 44)

The idea of a utopian state on earth, perhaps modeled on some heavenly ideal, is very hard to efface and has led people to commit terrible crimes in the name of the ideal. Christopher Hitchens
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?"I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm tallest in my class."You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?"Well my mum's name is Helen..."Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human? C. S. Lewis
Too proud to change your name in exchange for a job."Not proud, sir," said Runnel. "But Runnel of Farzibeck won't die here to have a waterless coward rise in his place. Orson Scott Card
... protested Mrs. Featherstone, a lady in her thirties, whose violently compressed figure suggested that she was engaged in a perpetual struggle to compute her weight in terms of the first syllables of her name rather than the last. Dorothy L. Sayers
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "He's just a man names Gatsby."
He's just a man names Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom..."
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. Arthur Conan Doyle
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge. Mary Wollstonecraft
Jane Austen quote: "Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or..."
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. Jane Austen
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. William Makepeace Thackeray
In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies? George R. R. Martin
Carol Ann Duffy quote: "The Latin names of plants blur like belief."
The Latin names of plants blur like belief. Carol Ann Duffy
Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?"Dream: "There isn't one."Delirium: "Oh. I thought maybe there was."Delirium and Dream, in Sandman #43: "Brief Lives: 3 Neil Gaiman
Good afternoon... My name is Lucy... I'm going to be your right-fielder... Our special today is a misjudged fly-ball. We also have a nice bobbled ground ball and an exellent late throw to the infield... I'll be back in a moment to take your order. Charles M. Schulz
Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quite horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact. I spent the whole night necking with a terrible phony named Anne Louise Sherman. Sex is something I just don't understand. I... J. D. Salinger
George R. R. Martin quote: "Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose..."
Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK. George R. R. Martin

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