Top 1200 Given Names Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The entertainment business is such a strange, crazy perception business that you're either given way too much respect, like people saying, "You should be the head of the sitcom!" Or you're given no respect, where they're like, "You should audition to be the garbage man that lives four houses down."

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.

I wouldn't even go into the history of the last days of the Soviet Union, the withdrawal from Europe, and what promises were given at that time, because those were oral promises, and our leaders of that time strongly believe that, like in ancient Russia, a word given is better than any treaty.

He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

We don't come up with product names like 'Cookie Sugar a la Mode.' We made a commitment that our brand is straightforward.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

When we got married, the first thing my wife did was put everything under both names - hers and her mother's.

Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.

To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.

Celebrities who lend their names to causes to raise lot of money for important issues should be admired and not marginalized and made fun of.

The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

I know there are some actors who won't switch their accents off when they're on set and like to be called by their character's names. That works for them, and that's great.

We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places.

One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man-made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a pile of ashes. But every single child to whom a has given birth will live forever, for he has been given an immortal soul made to God's image and likeness.

So before everyone begins the big party for 'Brontosaurus' and celebrates this huge diversity of sauropod names, let's hold our horses.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

When I was in junior high, I went to a really hippy dippy Quaker school where we called our teachers by their first names and stuff.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

I knew off by heart the names of the Real Madrid team that played Liverpool in the European Cup final of 1981.

We talked a lot about Donald's [Trump] record on immigration. There is irony that he has made the center of his entire campaign immigration, given that he faced a $1 million court judgment for being part of a conspiracy to hire illegal aliens, given that news broke that he is hiring foreign workers at his fancy hotel in Florida.

Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.

Floyd Mayweather has fought the biggest names throughout his career and has earned the right to face whoever he chooses.

I have a lot of respect for Ali Karimi and appreciate his football but we cannot get desired results with big names. It won't work.

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

People hide behind fake names to tweet negative comments, and I hate that. If you have something to say, own up to it.

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

Immigration is by far the most controversial yet least understood issue in America. Frankly, given the way we're talking about immigration, given the emphasis, the overemphasis on border security, I would argue that we're not on the same page when we debate this issue. We're doing far too much debating and not enough conversing.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

Back in the day, I've heard, particularly with the near-Earth asteroids, there were some asteroid hunters that knew the names of every one.

Our challenge is to unselfishly sacrifice all that we have been given, including our will. Elder Neal A. Maxwell rightly said: “The submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. The many other things we ‘give’ … are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.

The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.

I think, as athletes, we've been given a platform, and we can use it in a lot of different ways. We can use it for negative. We can use it for positive. We can be indifferent. But if you've been given a platform, I think God is pleased when you share... His truth in love.

you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope.

I don't normally think of a specific actor. I concentrate on the character, and then when we get into pre-production, that's how names come up.

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

We didn't know music had all these names. We made up SupaFunkRock on a plane when a flight attendant asked us what we play.

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.

The best messages in any given negotiation are really implied indirectly, come to the other person based on thinking that you're getting them to do - getting them to get some really solid thought behind their answers. And so a great thing to send someone in an email is, 'Have you given up on this project?'

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

I helped write the expunction code in the State of Texas to give people the opportunity to have their names cleared when they have been mistakenly arrested.

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

CEOs are called by their first names by young whippersnappers. That makes everybody uncomfortable. We need order and structure back in the workplace.

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?

It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.

I've been given a gift [musical talent] - don't misuse it. I spent a lot of time just wasting that talent, not treasuring it, not valuing it, not respecting it, just taking it for granted. That was a hard lesson to learn. It doesn't come for free. Don't do that. Treasure it, respect it, treat it as a responsibility that you've been given, and enjoy the hell out of it.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

I thought, how do I reflect the generosity, particularly of all the iwi who gifted us names - and Te Aroha seemed to be a way.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names.