Word Quotes
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Remember how the Lord rebukes Martha when He says: 'You are anxious and troubled about many things: one thing alone is needful' (Lk. 10:41-42) ? to hear the divine word; after that, one should be content with anything that comes to hand.
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What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Writing about Jerusalem was very stressful; every word counts.
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I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.
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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.
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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.
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“I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.”
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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
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I know many of you would say "What about the Bible?" The Bible says this, the Bible says that, the Bible is the inspired Word of God. I think the Bible is the inspired word of man - about God, and some of that is now expired.
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The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?
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Oligarch is just a nonsense word. What does it mean? I don't like it.
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The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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There are two men in me--one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second . . . the second?
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The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
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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.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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What is really yours? The blessings you bring to yourself, through your spoken or silent word, the things you see with your inner eye.
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I think you have to take the man at his word Donald Trump. Is kind of an equal-opportunity insulter. He started by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. He moved on to denigrating John McCain's heroism during the Vietnam War. He has gone after people with disabilities. He has said Muslims should be kept out of our country. He certainly has gone after individual women in the media, in the political arena.
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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.
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I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!
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On occasion, Frau Mertens, looking clean and fresh, would walk out into the fields to see how things were going. She had a colonial largesse about her. By way of greeting, she said “Heil Hitler” to us, with a smile. We would straightened up from the muddy earth and stare at her. No one said a word. She seemed disappointed.
