A Quote by Horace Greeley

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary. — © Horace Greeley
The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary. In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".
I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive Scrabble for a year. But having a big vocabulary and being good at Scrabble are not the same thing.
Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.
In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".
Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!
Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.
The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.
"Reinvention" is a word that doesn't fit into my vocabulary.
I pretend to be calm, it's not a word in my vocabulary.
Just because I have a good vocabulary, I don't think of myself as anachronistic - just because I try not to use the word 'like' every other word.
The word 'retirement' is not in my vocabulary right now.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.
'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
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