Verb Quotes

184 quotes by 156 authors

Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts,… — David B. Haight
A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the… — Vanderlei Luxemburgo
Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those… — Stephen Covey
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. — Stephen Covey
A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person… — Wanderlei Silva
The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I… — Shusha Guppy
It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple,… — Larry McMurtry
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only… — Guy de Maupassant
Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. — Alain Ducasse
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way)… — Elmore Leonard
If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of the New York… — Stephen King
Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb. — Annie Dillard
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones:… — Janet Fitch
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective… — Gustave Flaubert
...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is… — Martha Graham
Life is a verb, not a noun. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture,… — Douglas Hofstadter
Love is a verb and verbs show action — Mr. T
I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating. — Madeleine Thien

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