Word Quotes
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As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.
George Bernard Shaw
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
Gautama Buddha
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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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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
Ray Bradbury
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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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Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.
Ellery Schempp
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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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I believe that we are given an order by Jesus. One of the last things he did was to spread the word of God and he being the basis for our salvation. Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am.
Jimmy Carter
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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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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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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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Don't use the word gay unless it's an acronym for GAY (Got Aids Yet?) .
Bob Dornan
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Every tounge bit had another word to say.
Ned Vizzini
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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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The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
John Drinkwater
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Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
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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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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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FINAO. My word for my companies. Failure Is Not An Option.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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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 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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Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin