Containing The Word Quotes

#1. Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.

Alfred Korzybski

#2. ... she said she would not sign any deposition containing the word "amorous" instead of "advances". For her the difference was of crucial significance, and one of the reasons she had separated from her husband was that he had never been amorous but had consistently made advances.

Heinrich Boll

#3. This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.

Annie Besant

#4. If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.

Sara Bareilles

#5. Just because it may take longer, Doesn't mean your dream won't get done.

Robin Sharma

#6. In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Willis R. Whitney

#7. In a way, "failure" is just another word for "the journey," for not being there yet but on the way. It's the road we walk on to get wherever it is we're trying to go.

Sara Zarr

#8. Many pseudoscientific and New Age belief systems emerge out of dissatisfaction with conventional values and perspectives - and are therefore themselves a kind of skepticism.

Carl Sagan

#9. To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.

Thomas Aquinas

#10. * Kissing is a less aggressive form of bacterial transplant. Studies of three different gingivitis-causing bacteria have documented migration from spouse to spouse. Periodontically speaking, an affair might be viewed as a form of bacteriotherapy.

Mary Roach

#11. I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't.

Jack Nicholson

#12. The word just hangs, until Severin starts the blender and there's only the sound of crunching and grinding vitamins, the silvery core of nourishment, containing every essential thing but the nourishment itself. (pg. 82)

Deb Caletti

#13. And when a countryman says the cold freezes water, though the word freezing seems to import some action, yet truly it signifies nothing, but the effect, videlicet that water, that was before fluid, is become hard and consistent, without containing any idea of the action whereby it is done.

John Locke

#14. May we not be justified in reaching the diagnosis that, under the influence of cultural urges, some civilizations, or some epochs of civilization - possibly the whole of mankind - have become 'neurotic'?

Sigmund Freud

#15. I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

Robert B. Parker

#16. Putting together an agenda before a staff meeting is like a marriage counselor deciding what issues she's going to cover with a couple prior to meeting with them.

Patrick Lencioni

#17. NEED seemed like a really powerful word - - a powerful word containing a lot of powerlessness.

Katie Alender

#18. Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

Derek R. Audette