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Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.

People there’s a new sheriff in town. One of the great running backs in line of Pittsburgh Steelers [and] his name is Le’Veon Bell. He’s on his way people.

For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.

Memory revises me._x000D_Even now a letter_x000D_comes from a place_x000D_I don’t know, from someone_x000D_with my name_x000D_and postmarked years ago,_x000D_while I await_x000D_injunctions from the light_x000D_or the dark;_x000D_I wait for shapeliness_x000D_limned, or dissolution._x000D_Is paradise due or narrowly missed_x000D_until another thousand years?_x000D_I wait_x000D_in a blue hour_x000D_and faraway noise of hammering,_x000D_and on a page a poem begun, something_x000D_about to be dispersed,_x000D_something about to come into being.

Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth. () How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival - indeed, that she can put to shame - the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?

My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point. Eventually their growth rate can diminish as results revert towards normal. Maybe not in all cases, but often enough to make a long-term bet. Bottom line: I wouldn't want to get caught in a rush for the exit, much less get left behind. Only when big growth stocks fall into the dumper from time to time am I inclined to pick them up - and even then, only in moderation.

Name me no names for my disease,_x000D_With uninforming breath;_x000D_I tell you I am none of these,_x000D_But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known,_x000D_For brooks that I had crossed,_x000D_Before I met this flesh and bone_x000D_And followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last,_x000D_Yet name no name of ills._x000D_Say only, “Here is where he passed,_x000D_Seeking again those hills.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

To speak for others is to first silence those in whose name we speak

THERE WAS NEVER A SCHINDLER'S LIST. It was drawn up by a man called Goldman. This man took money to put a name on that list - no money, no place on the list. I was told this by a Dr Schwartz, in Vienna; he had paid in diamonds to save his wife

You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.

This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that we'd ever name a car on Top Gear. I wish I hadn't said that.

I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.

There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.