Word Quotes
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"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."
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One voice, one simple word. Hearts know what to say.
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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We can change the world with every thought we have and every word we speak.
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A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.
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Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.
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It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
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From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we find teachings distinct and definite, authoritative and infallible.
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I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.
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Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.
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No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.
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The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.
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'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.
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Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
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When a man says his word is as his bond - get his bond.
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Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.
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I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the next one, writing a key word, line or verse. When this happens often enough you begin to believe in Fate.
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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
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It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too.
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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
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The written word is everything.
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A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.
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And then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi.
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I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.
