Top 100 Four Word Quotes
#1. Debt is a four letter word and means a four word sentence - Be Prepared for Trouble.
Lucas Remmerswaal
#2. And what are you doing with a bloody cat, Charles? Some sort of mascot four our dear Reaper here?"
"Not another word," Spade snapped, getting into the car and seating the carrier on his lap.
"Ian, trust me
don't," Crispin said
Jeaniene Frost
#3. He's meeting his girl now, a girl not much older than 14. A five-and-ten-cents store Cleopatra, a four letter word.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool.
Michael Kirby
#5. The four-step strategy that the Laptop Millionaire taught me was very simple: 1. Find a niche market with a problem that needs solving, research some great solutions, and create a Word document with that information in it. This can be a simple 30-page Word document, with one really good idea in it!
Mark Anastasi
#6. There was only one four-lettered word having precedence over life itself and it was LOVE.
Faraaz Kazi
#9. The reason why I play around with the word legend is because this is my 7th CD and a lot of artists don't even make it that far. Many artists don't even pass three or four.
Ginuwine
#10. I guess it was only fitting that to them PUNK was a four letter word. However, to people like Dylan and I-punk was our hearts-our souls. We grew up with a lot of uncertainties. To be a teenager isn't always pretty, and our music reflected that.
Brian Joyce
#11. The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of a person solely by his ACT or deeds than his words.
Anuj
#13. You only need four words to spell the greatest word in the universe: L.O.V.E.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#14. Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.
Elizabeth Scott
#15. Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#16. BOOK, a four-letter word for truth serum" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary
"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 161
Rodman Philbrick
#17. You say love is just a four letter word.
Bob Dylan
#18. One result of family failure has been the loss of dignity. No better example can be found than in the use of language. [Language has been reduced to] a four-letter word in movies, on television, in comedy routines, and in real life.
Billy Graham
#19. Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
Ted Chiang
#20. The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one, word two, word three, word four. The words have to be organized. Nothing else does."
Dave Hickey
#21. The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.
Philip Wollen
#22. The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface.
Love.
Lauren Oliver
#23. As for us, we were scarcely four hundred strong, and we well remembered the word and warning ... we had received to beware of entering the city of Mexico, since they would kill us as soon as they had us inside.
Bernal Diaz Del Castillo
#25. Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.
Ira Levin
#26. It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.
Zadie Smith
#27. The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk.
Eric Hodgins
#28. The Four Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don't take anything personally.
3. Don't make assumptions.
4. Always do your best.
Miguel Ruiz
#29. What an indictment that is, of the Ivy League and its peers: that colleges four levels down on the academic totem pole, enrolling students whose SAT scores are hundreds of points lower than theirs, deliver a better education, in the highest sense of the word, than do those institutions.
William Deresiewicz
#30. I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
Abraham Pais
#31. We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word?
Sharon Stone
#32. I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.
Candace Pert
#33. I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
Evan Hunter
#34. Knowing that home was hateful to us both, I imagined that her calling me by the word meant I was expedient, or sturdy; but if I could only keep her hand in mine, I knew I would give my four limbs and my heart for the privilege, becoming instead four walls and a roof.
Lyndsay Faye
#36. At four Bela was developing a memory. The word yesterday entered her vocabulary, though its meaning was elastic, synonymous with whatever was no longer the case. The past collapsed, in no particular order, contained by a single word.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#37. Upon my word,' said Dantes, 'you make me tremble. If I listen much longer to you, I shall believe the world is filled with tigers and crocodiles.'
'Remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than those that walk on four.
Alexandre Dumas
#38. Any woman who can't say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.
Fanny Brice
#39. Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?
George Carlin
#40. Fate! This four-letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of human beings that are structually different from us, there can be no different style of fighting.
Bruce Lee
#42. It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.
Tom Cruise
#43. Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
Ed Markey
#44. Was it a good --" The air was heavy with unspoken knowledge. Sam twisted and the obscene word shot out of him. "-- dance?"
Memory of the dance that none of them bad attended shook all four boys convulsively.
"We left early.
William Golding
#45. You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.
Laurence Fox
#46. The Four Ideas: the Word, Time, Space, and the Atom. The ensuing effect is the idea of particles - the innumerable atoms, pair a or anu. These four - the Word, Time, Space, and the Atom - are therefore one and the same, and substantially nothing but mere ideas.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
#47. Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.
Shayne Ward
#48. Love is many things. It's every raw human emotion rolled up into one messy four letter word. There's no rule book and definitely no guarantees.
J.L. Berg
#49. It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#50. 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
#52. I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.
Francine Prose
#53. There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.
Smith Wigglesworth
#54. All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!
Dionne Warwick
#55. Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.
Lenny Bruce
#57. It's a four-letter word for a part of the human anatomy but it's not m-i-n-d.
Joseph Hansen
#58. Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.
Adora Svitak
#59. Carrot, to whom the word irony meant something to do with metal, picked up his pike and after a couple of impressive rebounds managed to cut the cake into approximately four slices.
Terry Pratchett
#60. The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you'
The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?'
The three most important are - 'If you please'
The two most important are - 'Thank You'
And the most important single word of all is - 'You'
Denis Waitley
#61. Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word. It will be a three-letter word: fun.
Frederick Lenz
#62. A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.
Ridley Scott
#64. Now she said, "I'm up to the four-letter words." And I said, "You mean the dirty ones, like shit?" And she laughed and said, "Worse ones than that." And I said, "You mean the c-word and the f-word?" and she said, "No. Like love.
Margaret Atwood
#65. In Charleston, temperance is a four letter word.
Mark R. Jones
#67. Four things you can't recover:
The stone after the throw,
The word after it's said,
The occasion after it's missed,
The time after it's gone.
Deanna Wadsworth
#69. Always is their thing. They'll always love each other and whatever. I would conservatively estimate they have texted each other the word always four million times in the last year.
John Green
#70. Real' is a four-letter word, and I'll thank you to use it as little as possible while you live under my roof.
Seanan McGuire
#71. I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
Walter Isaacson
#73. Fame is a four-letter word. And like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or love, or life, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
Fred Rogers
#74. Udru, a language common among India's Muslims, exhibits Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Indian influences. Its name derives from the Turkic word "ordu", meaning army, since it was at the Turkic army camps that these four languages intermingled.
Firas Alkhateeb
#75. Only one word described this situation. It was "F'd." Right? But I can't say that word. People who use that word in all its four-letter glory are nothing but common beggars.
Susan May
#77. Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.
Charles Dickens
#78. To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.
David Steel
#79. I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.
Andre Dubus III
#80. Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly, but deal with content; be a formalist exploration; and operate on some, metaphor is not the right word but, resonant level..
Stephen Shore
#81. Why use a 10 letter word you can barely pronounce ... when a four letter one will do.
Timothy Pina
#82. We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.
Hillary Clinton
#83. The word 'pretty', and it all it represents, seems so completely useless right now that I have no patience for it.
Veronica Roth
#84. Word Powers:
A beautiful bitch has four legs, not two. Even terms of, so called, endearment have unintended manifestations. Guard your grill.
T.F. Hodge
#85. Perhaps you think you see a certain contradiction here? In that case, a word in your ear. Study your wife closely, for the next four-and-twenty hours. If your good lady doesn't exhibit something in the shape of a contradiction in that time, Heaven help you!
you have married a monster.
Wilkie Collins
#86. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed" (Mat 8:3). To one who had lain in the grave four days He cried, "Lazarus, come forth," and the dead came forth. The stormy wind and the angry waves were hushed at a single word from Him. A legion of demons could not resist His authoritative command.
Arthur W. Pink
#87. It is true that we Russians have sent only four doctors into space in forty years of flight, but still I might have had chance to fly to Mir or International Space Station except for one fact. This is that I cannot urinate - is this the right word, Mr. Roth? - I cannot urinate on wheel of bus.
Dan Simmons
#88. So to you, or anyone else who has spent four minutes on me in some way
listening to just one song, or watching one of my videos ... .Thank you. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love.
Taylor Swift
#89. The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
Randy Wayne White
#90. The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone's actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral - in a word, that there is a Universal Order.
Jean Piaget
#91. Does your license plate mean something?" Bing asked. "En-o-ess-four-a-two?"
"Nosferatu," the man Charlie Manx said.
"Nosfer-what-who?"
Manx said, "It is one of my little jokes. My first wife once accused me of being a Nosferatu. She did not use that exact word, but close enough.
Joe Hill
#92. Trap is a four-letter word, and like so many four-letter words it can mean something entirely else.
--Hugo Anstead
Jennifer A. Girardin
#93. The thing with that word "establishment" is a four-letter word in the 2016 politics, so toxic, so pejorative that pretty much no one wants to be associated with it.
Chris Hayes
#94. Change is not a four letter word ... but often your reaction to it is!
Jeffrey Gitomer
#95. The art of writing was independently born in these four regions and I do not think it a coincidence that the advent of the written word was nourished by river water.
Olivia Laing
#96. One word, two lips, three four five fingers form a fist.
One corner, two parents, three four five reasons to hide.
One child, two eyes, three four seventeen years of fear.
A broken broomstick, a pair of wile faces, angry whispers, locks on my door.
Tahereh Mafi
#97. Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.
Thomas Sowell
#98. Word is actually very busy and strikes me as poorly designed. It's cluttered. There are four different rows, each filled with icons and butters I never use. This reminds me why I dislike Word. I almost always type in WordPress as it's much less cluttered. I'm on an airplane without WiFi.
Mike Cernovich
#99. There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'
Michael Moore
#100. To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.
Christine Pelosi
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