Name - Quotes
Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.
When my hair`s all but gone and my memory fades
And the crowds don`t remember my name
When my hands don`t play the strings the same way
I know you will still love me the same...
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
You can never pinpoint the exact moment that a species came to be, because it never did. Just like how you used to be a baby and now you're older, but there was no single day when you went to bed young and woke up old. (...) There was no first human. It sounds like a paradox, it sounds like it breaks the whole theory of evolution, but it's really a key to truly understanding how evolution works. Evolution happens like a movie, with frames moving by both quickly and gradually, and we often can't see the change while it's occurring. Every time we find a fossil, it's a snapshot back in time, often with thousands of frames missing in between, and we're forced to reconstruct the whole film. Life is what happens in between the snapshots. Instead of a nice smooth road this is a journey on stepping stones and we give each one their own name.
Those who are successful give credit to their mistakes and give them a polished new name, experience.
New Years Eve... Someone just needs to change the name to "Same Old Years Eve". Because that "new", implying all that hope and promise, it`s not fooling anyone.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: It was somebody`s name, or he happened to be there at the time, or, it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
War never changes. Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything, from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage. But war, war never changes.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.