Word Quotes
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To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
Emil Cioran
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I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.
Nellie Bly
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
Ray Bradbury
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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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The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.
Eugene V. Debs
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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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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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There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.
Ansel Adams
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Every tounge bit had another word to say.
Ned Vizzini
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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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Why do people use the word ‘kids’? It makes children sound like small goats.
Nicholas Parsons
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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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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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Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
Gautama Buddha
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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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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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. . . Alive is a place. Alive is the new word for home.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth.
Jeff Bezos
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FINAO. My word for my companies. Failure Is Not An Option.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, fame. It's a power; it's another degree of power, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used.
Harry Dean Stanton
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Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin