Word Quotes
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A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.
Beryl Markham
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The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.
Eugene V. Debs
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I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.
Stephen Dobyns
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. . . Alive is a place. Alive is the new word for home.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Michael Jackson
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All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
Ray Bradbury
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There is no golden rule of dating, except to make sure that it engages both of you; too many people go to a cinema for a first date and of course don't say a word, that's a bad thing!
Steven Hill
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Every tounge bit had another word to say.
Ned Vizzini
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When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.
Haruki Murakami
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
Gautama Buddha
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Why do people use the word ‘kids’? It makes children sound like small goats.
Nicholas Parsons
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Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.
Buck Brannaman
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Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.
Catherynne M. Valente
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The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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Magic is just a word for what’s left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
Catherynne M. Valente
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A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and respectful enough to conceal momentarily its aesthetic disdain, that dust may release a flock of souls, their beaks holding the still verdant dreams that gave them an inkling of the next world and let them rejoice or weep in this world.
Marcel Proust
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Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being. And now this same Word has appeared as man. He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things.
Tertullian
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FINAO. My word for my companies. Failure Is Not An Option.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die.
Steve Jobs
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I learned long ago that home is a word that applies to people, not places... Didn't matter to me where I was - it mattered who I was with.
Beth Revis