Nameless Quotes

• First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Fear, Patriotic, History

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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  That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

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• You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

  John Huston

  Doors, Arches, Flow

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• Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dwarves, World, Delving

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.490, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

  James Martineau

  Men, Every Man, Highest

  James Martineau (1847). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.3

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• How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

  Edwin Way Teale

  War, Two, Numbers

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• It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.

  William Styron

  Writing, People, Scared

  "Conversations with William Styron".

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• Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

  Alexander Pope

  Hands, Grace, Masters

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,”, p.71

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• In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: - feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Kindness, Heart

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

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• How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.

  Emily Carr

  Ideas, Feelings, Desire

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• Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

  Jose Saramago

  Names, Soul, Determined

  "Blindness". Book by Jose Saramago, October 1997.

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• Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

  Leon Trotsky

  Men, Thinking, People

  Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.353, Haymarket Books

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• And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence, and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Children, Home, Tired

  Malaclypse the Younger, Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (2006). “Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion”, p.156, Ronin Publishing

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• Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.445, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 'Gloria, Gloria!' they cry, for their song embraces all that the Lord has begun this day: Glory to God in the highest of heavens! And peace to the people with whom he is pleased! And who are these people? With whom does the good Lord choose to take his pleasure? The shepherds. The plain and nameless - whose every name the Lord knows well. You. And me.

  Walter Wangerin

  Christmas, Song, Names

  Walter Wangerin Jr. (2011). “Preparing for Jesus”, p.108, Zondervan

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• There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with no one to meet, no duties, no obligations. I had nothing to do and a thousand nameless, sun-drenched streets to do it in.

  Steven Saylor

  Cities, Mind, Sun

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• We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless.

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  Ram Dass

  Peace, Names

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.32, Harmony

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• The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.

  Laozi

  Mother, Heaven, Tao Te Ching

  Laozi, Philip J. Ivanhoe (2003). “The Daodejing of Laozi”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

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• I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.

  Louis Sachar

  Stars, Lying, Real

  Louis Sachar (2013). “Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Greenlake”, p.89, A&C Black

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• If you do goodness, do it in the name of goodness, not in the name of a religion! All goodnesses should be nameless!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Names, Goodness, Should

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• We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Instinct, Our Future

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.2242, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Names, Effort, Pieces

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• Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Memories, Believe, Autumn

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• I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

  Erica Jong

  Men, Invention, Plugs

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.413, Open Road Media

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