Word Quotes

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Every word decides a question between power and liberty. — James Madison
America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons. — W. E. B. Du Bois
There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am… — Jonathan Swift
The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight. — William Cowper
The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the… — Lorde
Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word. — Willy Brandt
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
So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which can be interpreted… — Arundhati Roy
How many things would be different in everyone’s surroundings if we hadn’t lived? How a good word many have encouraged some fellow and did something… — Rudolf Dreikurs
When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider… — Rudolf Dreikurs
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.' — B.F. Skinner
Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word… — William James
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital… — Karl Marx
If things were simple, word would have gotten around. — Jacques Derrida
Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies.… — Louis Althusser
What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides? — Homer
I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a man who has… — Dan Quayle
There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only… — Charles Bukowski
Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not. — Marina Tsvetaeva
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children. — Ivan Turgenev
To some people, bankers - code word for Jewish - and guess who Obama's assaulting? He's assaulting bankers. He's assaulting money people. And a lot… — Rush Limbaugh
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent,… — Eugene Ionesco
I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art… — Frank Stella
I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen… — Robert Rauschenberg
I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to… — Condoleezza Rice

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