Word Quotes

9067 Word quotes by 4674 unique authors

There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to… — Rajneesh
Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this… — Patrick Macnee
Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and… — M R DeHaan
OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of… — Ambrose Bierce
"Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his… — Ezra Taft Benson
I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle… — Margaret Fuller
Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself. — Christy Turlington
My ardent desire is, and my aim has been . . . to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic; but to keep… — George Washington
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable… — Thomas Jefferson
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood… — Oliver Ellsworth
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw,… — Charles Dickens
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert
How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand! — Mark Twain
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity." — Harry Bridges
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the… — Octavio Paz
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Listen to the magic word of motivation and you will hear it. Then the sky is the limit. — Norman Vincent Peale
God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… — Charles Baudelaire
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come… — Unknown Author
My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go up with me… — Charles Lindbergh
The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it. — Michel de Montaigne
If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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