Word Quotes
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Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
Joseph Roux
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We all agreed that philosophically, it was not OK, and ethically, it wasn't OK. We're going to take the word 'divert' totally out of our vocabulary.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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Scared is a strong word. I don't think I was that scared. We had jitters, and that was easy to see.
Bobby Frasor
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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
George Bernard Shaw
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God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.
John Calvin
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Love is a rose But you better not pick it. It only grows When it's on the vine. Handful of thorns And you'll know you missed it. You lose your love When you say the word MINE.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there was spoken word; and people left feeling so inspired and so energised. We have to get ourselves out of this syndrome of trauma and being re-traumatised. Art releases this energy. It exposes us to wonder again, and magic again, and ambiguity - all the things we need to really keep going and fighting and resisting in these times.
Eve Ensler
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It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.
Steven Spielberg
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."
Norman Vincent Peale
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Edgar Allan Poe
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What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?
Homer
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Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!
Robert H. Schuller
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A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
Flannery O'Connor
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When you go through a process of #1 praying daily and staying in God's word #2 obey Him in the small decisions every day #3 ask advice from a number of spiritual counselors then you can step out peacefully knowing that pleasing God is all that matters. America was built on this attitude.
Mary Elizabeth Lease
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.
Eva Braun
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
Alan Alda
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It is Allah's word just as it is in the Koran. We are also not allowed to translate it. It is unimportant whether what it says is well received or not. We are not allowed to question even a single word.
Abdul Sattar Abu Risha
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The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
Martin Luther
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A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
Berton Braley
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I said Ted Cruz has been lying because if you say something that isn't true, and you say it over and over again, and you know that it's not true, there's no other word for it.
Benjamin Carson
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A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.
Arthur Waley
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I’m not a good kid. Yeah, look, I’m just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it. A lousy piece of paper. That’s me. A piece of paper that’s waiting to be torn up.
Benjamin Alire Saenz