Top 1200 Single Word Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

No such word as can't. No such word as babagoozle neither!

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

I think that in our society we use the word 'terrorism' a lot - individuals throw the word around a lot without carefully considering it.

The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history - the academic word for flag making and heraldry.

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

My word is my word, and my word is good.

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.

I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

Most craft is, you know, terrible, absolutely terrible, so I don't like the word, or the word 'artisan' either.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

My goal is to attack every single day and get better every single day. The rest of the stuff will take care of itself.

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that cell phone, and all of a sudden we don't exist. The word is 'pizzled': it's a combination of puzzled and pissed off.

If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves.

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression.

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.

Every single policy Hillary Clinton espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women!

The word God, to me, is like the word enlightenment. It's become so corrupted by our ideas of what God is.

The word 'demand' is a tricky word when used by our gender. When used by men, it's part of their vernacular.

Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.

Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word.

You are either in the Word and the Word is conforming you to the image of Jesus Christ, or you are in the world and the world is squeezing you into its mold.

& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

Get in God's word every day. God's word equips us for everything we do.

I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.

These protesters, opposing me or our church, they're protesting the eternal Word of God, and guess what - they're not going to be successful in toppling the Word of God.

I'm happy to say that I am in remission. That R word is something critically important to cancer patients, especially in a disease like myeloma. But I never lose sight of the fact that there is another R word called relapse.

Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.

To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First, make the commitment to erase such words from your vocabulary. Next, if you slip and say a swear word or a substitute word, mentally reconstruct the sentence without the vulgarity or substitute word and repeat the new sentence aloud. Eventually you will develop a non-vulgar speech habit.

We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It's reality check time.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .

I think you say the word in your mind anyway, you know. When you look at a word, you say it.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

If you give your word, let the entire Universe fall before you, but let your word stand.