Word Quotes
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Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.
Aristotle -
The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.
Evan Esar
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The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon.
Oswald Chambers -
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being, evening's crystallization and wings that open to the light.
Gaston Bachelard -
Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.
Marina Tsvetaeva -
Love. It is a word that means nothing and everything at the same time.
Aryn Kyle -
And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know that I can do it.
Abigail Williams
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Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honest is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you.
Billy Joel -
The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
Harold Pinter -
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
Walker Percy -
It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers and the stories themselves will always be there.
Edwidge Danticat -
One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I am deathless, I am the eternal Lord For I have spread the seed of the Word.
Abolqasem Ferdowsi -
The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
Franz Kafka -
It would be naive to take the IRA at its word,
Ian Paisley -
I love the way they look. I love the way they feel. I love saying the word again and again: Jeggings! Jeggings! Jeggings!
Rachel Sklar -
I'm a man of my word.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
Walker Evans -
Although the word Jihad standing by itself means “struggle,” what Westerners need to focus on when reading the Hadith regarding Mohammed’s Jihad is similar to the focus needed when reading Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Adolph Hitler.
Walid Shoebat -
I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens.
Kathryn Erskine -
Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.
Oswald Chambers