Word Quotes
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If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.
Abdullah ibn Mubarak
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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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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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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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What is really yours? The blessings you bring to yourself, through your spoken or silent word, the things you see with your inner eye.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word.
Emily Dickinson
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The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.
Shailene Woodley
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In the first piece that you Beckett wrote about me circa 1946, you never once used the word color. That was important. I was struck by it.
Bram van Velde
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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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The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?
Sarah Jessica Parker
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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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A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.
Arthur Waley
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Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
Albert Einstein
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I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!
Martin Luther
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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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I'm just a big homebody and love word games like Scrabble and Boggle.
Sung Hi Lee
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Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.
Albert Camus
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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
Alan Rickman
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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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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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Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.
Hannah Arendt
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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
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Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Oligarch is just a nonsense word. What does it mean? I don't like it.
Eugene Shvidler