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9067 Word quotes by 4674 unique authors

Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we… — Wilferd Peterson
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease… — Fran Lebowitz
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was… — Hermann Hesse
In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her… — Arthur Miller
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word. — Lord Acton
God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful. — John Calvin
Equality is a mortuary word. — Christopher Fry
Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all… — Noah Webster
That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing. — Plautus
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An honest man's word is as good as his bond. — Miguel de Cervantes
Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I… — Aubrey Plaza
To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to… — Abraham Lincoln
I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance… — Thomas Jefferson
Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is. — Mark Twain
The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have… — Hans Zimmer
There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness… — Eric Hoffer
The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes. — Martin Luther
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a… — George Santayana
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who… — Edward Kennedy
It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ? — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The word heretic ought to be a term of honour... — Charles Bradlaugh
Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps… — Diogenes
My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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