Verbs Quotes

209 quotes by 176 authors

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
He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing.… — H.G. Wells
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
I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.... — Eddie Vedder
You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't… — Amitav Ghosh
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. — Victor Hugo
If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do… — Betty Eadie
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action. — Lierre Keith
A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb. — Joseph Beach
I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not… — Charles Darwin
There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. Things of this… — E E Cummings
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly.Â To handle a language cunningly is to practice a… — Charles Baudelaire
We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the… — Martin Luther
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be. — Franz Liszt
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could… — William Zinsser
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing. — Pat Metheny
Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons. — Gretel Ehrlich

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