Top 1200 Spoken Word Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

By the grace of God I want to impart the Word, and bring you into a place where you will dare to act upon the plan of the Word, to so breathe life by the power of the Word that it is impossible for you to go on under any circumstances without his provision. The most difficult things that come to us are to our advantage from God's side. When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.

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.

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

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.

I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

And when the home is filled with love you'll always find God spoken of

I certainly like that the Spanish language is spoken around me.

If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real.

The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

I have spoken about wanting to do something for kids and dogs in my interviews.

Why do people shush animals? Theyve never spoken

The word of God is a Christian's instructions for life. God speaks to us through His word, so we cannot constantly be running on empty.

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.

I don't remember even having spoken a piece in Sunday school.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.

In the past, I have assumed the word 'vulnerability' equates with the word 'weakness' and 'This Is Us' shows us that it is in fact the opposite.

'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.

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

I think the word 'diverse' is a cancerous word because it's life. It's a PC way of saying 'non-white,' and it ultimately suggests that white is the standard.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.

Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

I'm proud when my dance numbers are spoken about for my expressions and steps.

Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.

But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written.

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel

The most important things cannot be spoken; that’s why there’s music.

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

- "Control what an interesting word for you to be dwelling on" - "I have other words" I scream the F-Word in my head, over and over again.

I don't use the word 'pressure.' I use the word 'expectation.' I have very high expectations of myself. It starts with me.

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.

Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

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.

It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.

I have not spoken about my personal life earlier and I choose to maintain 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.

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."

I'd love to be charming and softly spoken, but that's never going to happen.

When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word.

In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

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.

Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.