N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Name yourself in your heart and know who you are.”
Source: Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
“Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.”
“Nameless is my price.”
“Namely- player- and prayer. One who followed their own will, marching forward--opening the unknown, confronting the future. Or one who deferred to another's will, closing their eyes--turning from the unknown, entrusting the future.”
Source: No Game, No Life Vol. 5
“Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.”
“Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.”
Source: The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong, the Ethics of Belief, the Ethics of Religion
“Namen bergen Macht.”
Source: Die Magie der Namen
“Namen sind Identität, ohne Identität ist man ein Nichts.”
Source: Die Magie der Namen
“Namensmagie ist die stärkste Macht der Welt.”
Source: Die Magie der Namen
“Namensmagie ist Erkenntnis, Wissen, Vertrauen. Die Seele, die sich entfaltet.”
Source: Die Magie der Namen
“Names always matter," Maz said..."And yours is such a lonely one, when you think about it."
Han had, plenty, and now that familiar sorrow crept back over his heart, an eclipse on never-ending repeat.”
Source: Last Shot: A Han and Lando Novel
“Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.”
“Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.”
“Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.”
“names are a way to keep people in your mind”
“Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.”
“Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.”
Source: The misfortunes of Elphin, by the author of Headlong hall
“Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.”
“Names are important, you know”
Source: Both of Me
“Names are not always what they seem.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.”
Source: Throne of Glass
“Names are powerful things.”
Source: The Sun Is Also a Star
“Names are precious gifts, you know...”
Source: A Man and His Cat, Vol. 1
“Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.”
“Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”
Source: The Sales Advantage: How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever
“Names are useful in that they help you know who someone's talking to but they can also be a deception because the truth is we're all just the same. We're all one.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the true name that tells of its history and people and lands and weather and . . . everything?”
Source: Redemption in Indigo: a novel
“Names Behind Naskar (Sonnet)
The world often wonders about my influences,
in doing so it often cooks up fake inspiration.
So I write this little sonnet memoir, so you're
aware of the crucial names in my ascension.
There is no Naskar the neuroscientist,
without, firstly Persinger, then Ramachandran;
there is no Naskar the poet, without Mevlana.
And among all your historic philosophers,
only appealed to me Tolstoy and Aquinas.
Then there are Ramanujan and Tesla,
with whom I've identified deeply.
And finally, to speak of my origin,
there is no Naskar the mission,
without Gadadhar Chatterjee.
These are my most cherished beings,
names that are never out of my mind.
None of them were flawless, none my god,
but they live rent free as part of my light.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Names can be a doorway into knowing who a person is, and that is certainly true of God. A study of His names is a study of who He is and will be for you.”
“Names can hide so much.”
Source: Sex Media
“Names come and names go.”
Source: American Gods
“Names don't matter, CVs don't matter, previous publications don't matter at all, because, in a certain way, the ideal is for someone to come completely out of left field. And still, of course, it is hard to say no to a writer who matters a lot to you and who you know matters to your readers.”
“Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in music, really. The most important thing about choosing a name for a band is if you can imagine forty-thousand people screaming it in unison.”
“Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be careful. Sometimes it can alienate the reader, it can be another level of mediation, to make a character carry the great burden of a metaphoric name. The character can be a device before he or she becomes a person, and that can be a bad thing for a writer who wants to offer up a kind of emotional proximity in the work. It's a constant struggle, the desire to be playful and the desire to communicate on some very stark emotional level.”
“Names have a great influence on the destiny of the person, who bears the name”
“Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.”
Source: The Post-office Girl
“Names have power.”
Source: The lightning thief
“Names have power... And he kept the one I gave him. My dear, sweet Jackaby. - Eleanor”
“Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.”
“Names I am most commonly called by telemarketers: Simone, Slain, Siobhan, Flo, Stacey, Susan, Slater, Leanne, and Slow (Yes, my parents named me "Slow". That's because they hate me and made me sleep in the linen closet subsisting only on bath salts and Scope).”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
“Names of people, of places, meant so little, and so we had stopped burdening others by seeking them. [...]
Yet still, I named him Borne.”
Source: Borne
“Names sound nice because no one peeks behind the cover to see the sad face of a poem crying for meaning, while the name of the creator proudly smiles from the title.”
Source: Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
“Names?' the receptionist asked us.
“Jesus,” Jamie answered.
“Mary,” said Stella.
“Satan,” I said as I walked past her and pushed open the door to Ira Ginsberg’s office.”
Source: The Retribution of Mara Dyer
“Names...they matter to us. They shape our souls in ways I've never fully understood. But have you pondered the power of them?”
Source: The Nature of a Lady
“Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.”
“Names were honest. They had to be in order to work, and sometimes it felt like there wasn't a day that passed that her family didn't hold something back.”
Source: Every Bone a Prayer
“Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a name.”
“Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“Namesake marriages exist as a hollow shell, a union of convenience rather than a bond of love. Two individuals living separate lives under the same roof, merely playing the part of partners but lacking the warmth and connection that comes from truly sharing a life together. Like two strangers under the same umbrella, they stay dry but never truly connect, living single lives in a marriage that lacks love's spark.”