Top 1200 Word Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

Real Christianity is based upon God's word given to us through the scriptures, and His word is final.

You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

I will remember this word," he said. "Shenanigans. It is a good word.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.

The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real and actual name of the thing, but that people in other countries, who obstinately persisted in speaking the code of their forefathers, might use the word "ibu," say, to designate not merely the concept hat, but the English word "hat." I knew only one foreign word, "oui," and since it had three letters as did the word for which it was a code, it seemed, touchingly enough, to confirm my theory.

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

Beware of resting in the word of the kingdom, without the spirit and power of the kingdom of that gospel, for the gospel coming in word only saves nobody, for the kingdom of God or the gospel, where it comes to salvation, is not in word but in power.

I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote", so right before I die I could say "unquote".

And here's what I said, if its in the word we accept it but if you dream it and your vision is not in the bible then you got to dismiss it because its not based upon the word.

You can't actually have a romance between friends. That sort of defeats the definition of the word "romance." The word you're looking for is "love." It's a love between friends, just as there's also love between lovers, or possible lovers, or even ex-lovers. Same holds true for "bromance" - it's just a clever word used to avoid the word love, for straight boys who don't want that old-fashioned taint of gayness. Dudes, you love each other. Deal with it.

The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.

There's always a better word than a swear word.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, "If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates." But he could not find it out.

I pissed off Greeks, particularly in my family, for years to come, because I popularized the word "malaka," which hitherto had not been known outside of the community. It's basically "jack off," you know? Masturbator. So I remember my mother was not pleased at the time. She was, like, "Oh, John, couldn't you have used a better word?" There's no better word, Mom!

Working on 'Mad Men,' everything is word for word. And, honestly, I couldn't come up with anything better than that, so it's fine.

The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?" "It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words.

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .

Mikeru was still puzzling over Horace's last remark. He frowned. 'Kurokuma, these shenanigans... What are they?' 'Shenanigans are what Rangers do. They usually involve doing things that risk breaking your neck or your leg.' Mikeru nodded, filing the word away. 'I will remember this word,' he said. 'Shenanigans. It is a good word.'

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.

We shed blood to take the word `Grexit' away from the mouth of foreigners, and Syriza is bringing this word back to their mouths.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

I was so glad when geek went from being a bad word to a good word.

I have your word?” “You trust my word?” “You’re an idealistic fool. Of course.

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.

I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.

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.

Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.

You can meditate on almost anything: a prayer, song, image or word. Close your eyes; sit in a comfortable position. Take a breath, and say the word out loud, emphasizing the humming sound at the end. When you come to the end of the breath, take another one and say the word again. And so on.

You can go to some countries where people may not be able to conversate with you, but they can sing your lyrics word for word.

My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.

Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.