Verb Quotes

184 quotes by 149 authors

...she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say… — Ford Madox Ford
I believe in love the verb, not the noun. — Greg Behrendt
Hyacinth,â€ Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, â€œdo try to speak in complete sentences.â€ Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression.… — Julia Quinn
This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using… — Maria Semple
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office.… — Eric Weiner
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in… — Adrienne Rich
I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by the end of… — Benedict Cumberbatch
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every… — Barbara De Angelis
When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks… — Rollo May
Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling? — Stephen Covey
After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. — Bertha von Suttner
Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. — William Arthur Ward
Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional… — Erin McKean
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. — Mortimer Adler
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. — John Wesley Powell
I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. — Richard Flanagan
Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself. — Lynn Margulis
Love is a verb. — Clare Boothe Luce
If we had a girl, my wife wanted to call her Sue -- a lovely name, but which for Jews is generally a verb... — Dennis Wolfberg
As you know, we're studying safe levels for arsenic in drinking water to base our decision on sound science, the scientists told us we need… — George W. Bush

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