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“Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.”

Giving Names Empty Miserable Vanity Vain

Book:The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

“The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.”

Giving Character Use Literature Names Speak Sex Causes Numbers Mass Novelists Behave Gestures Consistently Colleagues Describing Plausible Inverted Niceties

Author:E. M. Forster

“The point is that if you accept that there is only one energy in all things, then on an energy level there is no giving or receiving - just energy moving around within itself. It's only the ego that sees a separateness in things. So the ego will say, "The Cadillac went from Harry to Sally." But on an infinite level, it is neither Harry's nor Sally's, it is a part of all things. It is. Where it finds itself and whose name is on the owner's manual is irrelevant.”

Ifs Giving Moving Names Energy Levels Accepting Ego All Things Infinite Owners Receiving Irrelevant Manuals Separateness Cadillacs Energy Levels

Author:Stuart Wilde

“Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.”

Knows Giving Names Knowledge Too Much Fame

Book:The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost

Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost

“If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.”

Ifs Thinking Giving I Can Mother Evil Names Crime Strive Indulgence

Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Easyread Comfort Edition

“I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.”

People Knows Giving Kind Would Be Names Hell Goodness Corners Conception Hottest

Book:What I Have Gathered

Source: What I Have Gathered

“[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name of ritual, we can do anything. We can do astonishing acts. In the end, ritual gives us assurance about the unification of things.”

Needs Giving Ends Reality Names Can Do Ordinary Extraordinary Affair Invisible Ritual Artificial Gestures Costumes Vocabulary Assurance Astonishing Solemn Props Scenery Unification

Author:Barbara Myerhoff

“Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following. For that fortune, some sold their soul to Satan. Was on track for the first two years, then i let the Devil steer. Now i got to mask my tears, but allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is Cole: Born sinner, opposite of a winner. But the Devil run the T.V. so the demons in him, I'm in trouble did a deal with the Devil but now I'm pleading with him like give me my soul. I ain't ever letting go but the devil don't play fair.”

“Give death a better name or die trying.”

Giving Trying Dies Names

Author:Timothy Leary

“The sound rule in business is that you may give money freely when you have a surplus, but your name never-neither as endorser nor as member of a corporation with individual liability”

Giving May Names Sound Plus

Book:Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography

Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography

“This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique to Turkey, it will be like a bee making honey, taking something from every flower and giving us a taste of a truly different honey.”

Giving Different Names Flower Bears Taste Unique Presidential Honey Bees Dictatorship Asia Turkeys Resemblance

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.”

Giving Bigs Names Study Everyday Fancy

Author:Jenna McCarthy