Top 1200 Spoken Word Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.

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?

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

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

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.

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 .

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.

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

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

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

It is Allah's word just as it is in the Koran. We are also not allowed to translate it. It is unimportant whether what it says is well received or not. We are not allowed to question even a single word.

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

Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, ‘I love you’ but it means nothing more to him than if he said, ‘I’ll have a cup of coffee.

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

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 appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. It isn't about us and them.

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

Fashion is so important to me. I've always spoken about it in my music.

Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

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.

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

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.

Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.

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

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

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.

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

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

The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.

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.

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.

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

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

If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

'The Post' is a fairly fusty place when it comes to profanity. If a reporter tries to get a bad word into a story, the word is usually forwarded to top editors, who consider it with the gravity and speed that the Vatican applies to candidates for sainthood.

The truly great writer does not want to write: he wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination. The first quivering word he puts to paper is the word of the wounded angel: pain.

Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.

I guess I notice things as a woman just in the way I'm spoken to.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

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

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

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