Names Quotes - Page 15

• The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.

  Jennifer Baumgardner

  Fate, Bisexual, Ugly

  Jennifer Baumgardner (2008). “Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics”, p.63, Macmillan

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• No tienes que decir te quiero para decir te amo", dijiste encogiéndote de hombros. "Sólo tienes que decir mi nombre y lo sé". ... "¿No lo oyes?", dijiste. "Cuando quieres a alguien, dices su nombre de otra manera. Como si estuviera seguro dentro de tu boca.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love You, When You Love Someone, Mouths

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• What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

  Toni Morrison

  Thinking, Power, Political

  "CHLOE WOFFORD Talks About TONI MORRISON". Interview with Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 1994.

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• Los dioses que adoramos escriben sus nombres en nuestros rostros; tenlo por seguro. Y un hombre adorará algo... Lo que domina determinará su vida y su carácter. Por lo tanto, debemos tener cuidado con lo que adoramos, porque nos convertimos en lo que adoramos.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Character, Men

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• It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Slaughterhouse Five, Dignity, Slaughterhouse 5

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). "MATADERO CINCO"

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• How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books?

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Hands, Pants

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• Norah looked at her son’s tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like a wrist band, something that might easily slip off and disappear. She had read about people – where? she could not remember this either – who refused to name their children for several weeks, feeling them to be not yet of the earth, suspended still between two worlds.

  Kim Edwards

  Niños, Padre, Hijo

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• Le sonreí lo mejor que pude y empujé el papel al otro lado de la mesa antes de que pudiera cambiar de opinión. Porque Henry DeVille tenía razón: había un ingrediente en mi repostería más concentrado que cualquier extracto, más picante que cualquier especia; un ingrediente que todo el mundo reconocería y nadie era capaz de nombrar: era el arrepentimiento, y surgía cuando uno menos se lo esperaba.

  Jodi Picoult

  Regret, Rose, Mind

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

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• The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.

  Isabel Allende

  Heart, Demand, Speak

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• I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing to show for the day: Perry Delloplane. The sound of a name. It is a grape in my mouth. I roll it over and over on my tongue--perrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplane--but when I try to crush it with my teeth, it slips away.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Crush, Trying, Sound

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.191, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Land, Giving

  Cornel West (2005). “Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism”, p.107, Penguin

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• Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Dmt, Mind Blowing

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• Tu nombre es una campana de oro colgada en mi corazón. Rompería mi cuerpo en pedazos para llamarte una vez por tu nombre.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Heart, Pieces, Body

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). "Un lugar fino y privado: El último unicornio"

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• Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.

  Walter Scott

  Blessed, Sleep, Night

  Sir Walter Scott (1825). “The Novels, Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley”, p.311

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• Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kindness, Dedication, People

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.7, Random House

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• Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Children, Hitting, Today

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• Si tu comprensión de lo divino te hacía más amable, más empático, y te impulsaba a expresar simpatía en actos concretos de bondad amorosa, eso era buena teología. Pero si tu noción de Dios te hacía antipático, beligerante, cruel, santurrón, o si te llevaba a matar en nombre de Dios, era mala teología.

  Karen Armstrong

  Amor, Simpatía, Dios

  Karen Armstrong (2007). "La escalera de caracol: My Climb Out of Darkness", p.212, Anchor

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• Another thing I think about names is that they DO hurt. They hurt because we believe them. We think they are telling us something true about ourselves, something other people can see even if we don't. —Bobby Goodspeed

  James Howe

  Herir, Creer, Pensar

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• The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. —Bobby Goodspeed

  James Howe

  Winning, Be Who You Are, Doe

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• Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Faces, Foolish

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• Sammantha: Tucker? Tucker: Does some other man call at this hour just to hear your voice? If so, give me his name, and I'll kill him.

  Catherine Anderson

  Hombres, Voz, Dar

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• Eve-"In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process?" Roarke-"Amen

  Nora Roberts

  Way, Holy, Figures

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• I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G.I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I said, "No, but he and Ken got married last week." Every Christmas since then, my grandparents have sent me a check.

  James Howe

  War, Clueless, Mean

  James Howe (2005). “Totally Joe”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Donde la mayoría de los hombres trabajan para conseguir un título después de su nombre, nosotras trabajamos para conseguir uno antes de nuestro nombre: 'St. Lleva toda una vida, y no te dan el diploma hasta que mueres.

  Madre Angélica

  Men, Degrees, Diploma

  "Mother Angelica Live". Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. (1983 - ).

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• The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

  Neil Gaiman

  Memories, Heart, Gone

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.98, A&C Black

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