#names

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me. ↗

— Michael Franti

#always #bones #break #exhilaration #felt

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#any #available #cannot #certainly #force

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#cannot #cultural #economic #fear #i

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#contention #described #forthright #george #longer

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#art #characterizes #creates #creativeness #critical

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#control #degrade #demean #existence #horrible

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#find #house #i #johnson #like

Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics. ↗

— David Milne

#analog #company #economics #enjoys #first

I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese. ↗

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #believe #blood #firmly #i

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#each #generation #names #new #new people