People Quote by Willa Cather Download Open image “Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.” — Willa Cather ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare People
And what better way to get people talking than by creating a new word. — Stephen Amell Copy Share Image
The extraordinary thing about new words is that probably only about one per cent of them are new. Most are old words revived and… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share
Facts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them. — Cheris Kramarae Copy Share Image
But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story. — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
If most folks had to produce facts before they could utter a word...they would be rended silent.~ENB — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes. — James Carville Copy Share Image
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Nothing is new in the world, but the way of speaking makes old things new. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart." "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully. "It's a lady's privilege.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“You remember how homesick I used to get, and what long talks we used to have coming from school? We've someway always felt alike… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
