#naming

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fiction #identity #love #lovers #naming

Such things have little to do with brevity of meeting. And in that lies our hope: for the Dark understands nothing of love. ↗

— Allison Croggon

#cadvan #love #the-naming #love

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. ↗

— Mary Daly

#naming #power #stolen #us #women

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#choice #concept #enable #familiar #hold

With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

#communist party #defending #me #names #naming

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#because #begun #books #makes #many

The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees creak and they are saying, 'trees creak through the long night.' The long night - what is it? Trees creaking. There wasn't anything that tied life's moments together, except life. And when it was gone? ↗

— Jesse Ball

#life #naming #wittgensteinian #life

I speculate over some of the Anglo nomenclature of birds: Wilson's snipe, Forster's tern . . . : What natural images do these names conjure up in our minds? What integrity do we give back to the birds with our labels. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#names #naming #nomenclature #nature

Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#been #candidate #candidates #careful #intentions

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#am #any #deeply #fear #forgo