“We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be received and valued by future generations as authentic and reliable, ... Errors in history and doctrine, if left uncorrected by us who are conversant with the events, and who are in a position to judge of the truth or falsity of the doctrines, would go to our children as though we had sanctioned and endorsed them.” IfsChildrenNamesLeftWishGenerationsEventsPositionJudgingOur ChildrenErrorsDoctrineFuture GenerationPosteritySanctionsFalsity Author:Brigham Young
“There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places, and events mentioned in the Bible. In fact, external sources verify that at least eighty persons mentioned in the Bible were actual historical figures. Fifty people from the Old Testament, and thirty people from the New Testament.” PeopleWritingPersonsFactsNamesEventsFiguresSourceBibleHistoricalThirtyFiftyDozenTestamentEightyNew TestamentAccuracyOld TestamentVerifyHistorical FigureHistorical Accuracy Author:Charlie Campbell
“There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.” BodyNamesGivenProcessMy OwnConsciousnessEventsObjectsSkinsTechniqueDefinedVisibleDivinityInternalsOrgansIntroducingSacramentsIntroductionTangibleAlteredUneasyBorderline Author:Timothy Leary
“In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in the name of that spirit which lives on in our teaching and in our vision of humanity and art, the spirit which can lead us Jews down the true and just path. But along the way, peoples will spill our blood, and that of others.” WayArtStillsSpiritHumanityNamesVisionPathWonderfulBloodTeachingEventsJewMissionsSpiteTolerateVocationSpills Author:Marc Chagall
“The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate and useful occupation. Any protest against such efforts, in the name of freefom from restrictive conditions, would be fruitless if science did not naïvely identify the abstractions called rules and laws with the actually efficacious forces, and confuse the probability that B will follow A with the actual effort make B follow A.” IfsWould BeLawOrderNamesForceEffortConditionsEventsResearchConnectionsDetermineProtestOccupationEndeavorProbabilityAbstractionScientific Research Author:Max Horkheimer
“The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.” BookNamesRecordsInfluenceEventsPoliticianAimSpellsHistory Books Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.” ThinkingWayFirstsWellsMayLongBookStoriesReadingLiteratureNamesLanguageHoursNumbersCompanyNovelWrittenWorstEventsComplexesInternationalDetailsLondonNarrativeCodeProseDescriptionDefiniteLong WaySan FranciscoDescribingCurriculumStylistJournalisticRenownedDa Vinci Code Author:Geoffrey K. Pullum
“A dozen swimming events have already been completed in the Olympic competition. I wonder where they got the name 'Speedo.' It doesn't sound like a bathing suit, it sounds like a breakfast cereal for meth addicts.” FunnyNamesSoundWonderEventsCompetitionSuitsBreakfastSwimmingDozenOlympicsAddictCerealBathingLondon OlympicsBathing SuitsBreakfast CerealSpeedos Author:Craig Ferguson
“Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would not be able to explain. In other words, people attribute leadership to certain individuals who are called leaders because people want to believe that leaders cause things to happen rather than have to explain causality by understanding complex social forces or analyzing the dynamic interaction among people, events, and environment.” PeopleWantBelieveUseHappensAbleCertainNamesIndividualForceSocialCausesUnderstandingLeadershipLeaderEnvironmentEventsComplexesMake SenseOutcomesAttributesInteractionAnalyzingCausality Author:Joseph C. Rost
“Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.” MayMightNamesLostHistoryEventsCharityOblivionBishopsCalendarsRoman EmpireDisregarded Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History. Being faithful to all that happens to you of significance, recording days, dates, events, names, sights not relying merely upon memory which fades like a Polaroid print where you see the memory fading before your eyes like time itself retreating.” HappensEyeNamesMemoriesEventsLaborSightForgottenFaithfulSignificancePrintFadesDoomedFadingBeing FaithfulPolaroids Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.” PeopleWorldFilmUsedNamesTakenRocksEventsHappeningsThings HappenCinemaCarrieWayne Author:Elizabeth Taylor