Top 1200 Wrong Word Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

Eliminate the word HATE and replace it with LOVE. The words: hate, hatred, hating, haters, hate that, hate this...and so forth. Stop people when they say them. Stop people from expressing any of those words in action. Make the word HATE as old as GROOVY. The word LOVE has been proven to be the most beautiful word. Learn to use it and put it into action - any which way you can.

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

The word of God is complete, and those who don't preach the word in its fullness are false teachers.

All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.

In fact, I think that's my favorite word and the most important word when it comes to relationships: equality.

Wrong location? Move it. Wrong people? Replace 'em. Wrong industry? I don't believe it. I've got a company in the machine tools industry, and we're doing great. I'd happily go into the coal business. It's how you look at something and how it's managed that make the difference.

How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?

Being impeccable with your word is not using the word against yourself.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and tragedies. I enjoy writing the contemporary and historical books equally, though perhaps 'enjoy' is the wrong word.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

The biggest word in football, and it's a dirty word - no one likes to use it - is accountability.

I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.

My party needs to understand that business is not a bad word - especially when it has the word 'small' before it.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

People now know of the word intervention and think they understand what it means, but more often than not they go about intervening the wrong way. I see people staging things on their own. But discussing the nature of somebody's condition over breakfast isn't an intervention.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the result of the Word of God. We can experience the return of the Word of God in the here and now, the perpetual return of the actual, living, indisputable Word of God that makes possible the act of witnessing, but we should never think of the Bible as any sort of talisman or oracle constantly at our disposal that we need only open and read to be in relation to the Word of God and God Himself.

I saw Vicente Fox use the word that he used. I can only tell you, if I would have used even half of that word, it would have been national scandal. This guy used a filthy, disgusting word on television, and he should be ashamed of himself, and he should apologize, OK?

I have to use the word 'insurgent' because I can't think of a better word right now.

I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly in my memory that I forget I always do the wrong thing.

One of the most effective ways to pray is to ask God to give you a promise from his Word concerning whatever it is you're praying for. Then hold him to his Word as you pray it back to him. It's what has been called "reversed thunder." God keeps his Word, and basing our prayer on his Word gives our prayers strength and confidence because we know we're asking for something God wants to give us.

May your first word be adventure and last word love.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

I'm boasting in God's Word, because I've found out His Word works.

I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."

If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'

Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."

God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.

I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong age, the wrong sex, the wrong nationality, or whatever. I've found it quite exhilarating to have that freedom to tell the stories that aren't just about middle-aged white English guys.

There's nothing wrong with commercial art. There's nothing wrong with consumer society. There's nothing wrong with advertising. There's nothing wrong with shopping and spending money and being paid. There's nothing wrong with any of these things. These are things we do. I just think it's important to look at them from a different perspective - to see how bizarre and banal these rituals we partake in are. It's just important to think about them, I think, and to carry on. Life is about retrospection, and I think that goes for every facet of life.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.

I just didn't like the word 'gay.' I still don't like it. It's a dumb way of describing sexuality. I like 'queer' or other words, but 'gay' is a word that had a completely different-meaning word and has been reappropriated. I just don't like it.

Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

In the beginning was the word, the word That from the solid bases of the light Abstracted all the letters of the void.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

The word relationship is beautiful. The original meaning of the root from which the word to relate comes is exactly the same as to respond. Relationship comes from that word respond. If you have any image of your wife or husband, you cannot respond, and hence relate, to the truth of the person. And we all go on carrying images.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" — Merely this, and nothing more

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.