Word Quotes

9067 Word quotes by 4674 unique authors

A single word often betrays a great design. — Jean Racine
The Bible does not contain the Word of God; It is the Word of God. — Lee Roberson
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another. — Unknown Author
Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To… — Paulo Freire
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t… — Charles Darwin
Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the… — Eda LeShan
You have all the scenes. Just go home and word it in. — Samuel Goldwyn
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's… — William Faulkner
Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The… — Leonard Michaels
The book should act as a window to the word. — Unknown Author
O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should… — Theodore Roethke
The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I… — Betty Buckley
I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.' — Beyonce Knowles
I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud… — Sheryl Sandberg
I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular… — Emma Watson
When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I… — Ulysses S. Grant
The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who… — Robert Graves
The word 'feminist' is a word that discriminates, and I'm not into that. I don't think there has to be a separation in life in… — Shailene Woodley
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to… — Susan Sontag
In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you… — Randolph Bourne
The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his… — Clarence Darrow
In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form.… — Alexander Lukashenko
Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive,… — Unknown Author
That must be fine, for I don't understand a word. — Moliere

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