12 Word Sayings

#1. Everyone at Bellingham would know me, know who I was, by dinner. Would they consider me the hero or the fuckup? All I had wanted was to be anonymous.

Amber Dermont

#2. Guns are the crutches of the impotent.

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.

Anne Rice

#4. People will try to pull you down when they see you rising up.

Staci M. Weems

#5. When we take too long to forgive the people we love, we can sometimes be too damn late for it to matter.

Monika Basile

#6. O Lord God! What plans do you have for me this year?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.

Keith Stanfield

#8. The word of God is living and effective and sharper than any two-edged sword ... . It is a judge of the ideas and thoughts of the heart. Hebrews 4:12

Beth Moore

#9. I want to feel you deep inside me. I want to hear you groan and pant and moan as you plunge deeper and deeper.

Pepper Winters

#10. When I was 12 or 13 I already knew that I was gay. And then my interests were not conventional. So I was very different, in every sense of the word. And in an all-boys school, that's tough.

Jason Wu

#11. But in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse, volunteers are all but extinct.

Suzanne Collins

#12. Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on.

Ramez Naam

#13. I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

Mark Ruffalo

#14. I think there is something to be said for a well-publicized ass-kicking.

Jacquelyn Frank

#15. I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

Ashwin Sanghi

#16. It seemed safer to hold it in, where the only one who could judge was me.

Sarah Dessen

#17. As we see in Ezra's life, committed study of Scripture can bring about much more than merely head knowledge. It can bring God himself into all the recesses of our being, for "the word of God is living and active" (Heb 4:12). Take

Richard J. Foster

#18. Whatever ... you pretend ... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company (Proverbs 13:20), in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved. (Hebrews 12:14; Matthew 15:14).

Joseph Alleine

#19. The second is the Word of God used in the life to affect all its parts (notice that soul, spirit, body, and heart are all mentioned in Heb. 4:12).

Charles C. Ryrie

#20. God regenerates (John 1:13) according to His will (James 1:18) through the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit (John 3:5) when a person believes (John 1:12) the gospel as revealed in the Word of God (1 Peter 1:23).

Charles C. Ryrie

#21. Bound by custom or unique by choice.

Margaret McHeyzer

#22. I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.

George R R Martin

#23. It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

Lynn Abbey

#24. I still don't think I've ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four 'Hardy Boys' books when I was 10, 11, 12, and I didn't love them at the time. Even then, they felt dated to me, like the word chum - 'my chum and I.' However, the 'Encyclopedia Brown' books, I read all of them.

Rob Thomas

#25. The first American word that I learned was cheeseburger. And the first sentence I learned was, "I'm sorry but we don't serve breakfast after 12 o'clock."

Callan McAuliffe

#26. They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. Revelation 12:11

Beth Moore

#27. On the contrary, Christian Hedonists are persuaded with Edwards that the only affections that magnify God's value are those that come from true apprehensions of His glory. If the feast of worship is rare in the land, it is because there is a famine of the Word of God (Amos 8:11-12).

John Piper

#28. God's tried and tested people will find their power in the sign spoken of in Exodus 31:12-18. They are to take their stand on the living word: "It is written." This is the only foundation upon which they can stand securely.53

Ellen G. White

#29. Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

Will Smith

#30. An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up. - Proverbs 12:25

Sue Birdseye

#31. Jeremiah 1:12 (AMP) says: "Then said the Lord to me, You have seen well, for I am alert and active, watching over My word to perform it.

Aly Taylor

#32. We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts (Hebrews 4:12), when we are convicted of our sins and trust Christ by faith.

R. L. Hymers Jr.