Word Quotes
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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.
Edgar Allan Poe
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You can't say the secret word!
Alex Riley
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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
George Bernard Shaw
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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 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.
Hillary Clinton
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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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A man once asked Rumi, "Why is it you talk so much about silence?" His answer: "The radiant one inside me has never said a word.”
Coleman Barks
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Oligarch is just a nonsense word. What does it mean? I don't like it.
Eugene Shvidler
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Every word is a prejudice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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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?
Mikhail Lermontov
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If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.
Abdullah ibn Mubarak
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If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
Confucius
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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.
Evagrius Ponticus
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My first word for the people of Brazil is the word 'confidence.' Confidence in the values that form the character of our people, the vitality of our democracy.
Michel Temer
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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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What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?
Homer
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I'm kind of over people using the word 'bae'. Let's get rid of that.
Erin Foster
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I have observed gratitude to be a principle, that bears the smallest share in the hearts of those where it ought to be most strongly resident, so that I begin to imagine one half of the world don't understand the real etymology of the word.
Charlotte Charke
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I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.
Martin Luther
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
Emily Bronte
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Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.
Ed Bliss
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She expressed herself in sentences that were well constructed, and without error, even though she had stopped going to school, but – further – she left no trace of effort, you weren’t aware of the artifice of the written word. I read and I saw her, heard her. The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face; it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, the confusion of the oral.
Elena Ferrante