Operative Word Quotes

#1. Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off.

Robin Williams

#2. In this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family.

Lois Wyse

#3. People always ask, 'Was it fun? Was it fun working on a movie?' I don't know if that's the operative word. It is challenging and interesting and all those other things, but fun isn't always.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#4. If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try."
"Try' being the operative word," he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try.

Leah Raeder

#5. I take one day off," he says, "and you almost get yourself killed."
"Almost being the operative word."
"Killed being the operative word. Almost is the word Killed used to beat up in high school.

D.D. Barant

#6. Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

Barbara Sher

#7. Man's responsibility is correspondingly operative with his free agency. Actions in harmony with divine law and the laws of nature will bring happiness, and those in opposition to divine truth, misery. Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

David O. McKay

#8. Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

#9. It is the mess that readers love. The fact that sometimes the people who love us the most aren't people we're related to, but people who join our family later. The book acknowledges how difficult family relationship are, and this fuss just proves it.

Kristine Grayson

#10. I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.

Muhammad Ali

#11. As much as I should keep my heart in my chest, part of it runs away with him. And maybe that means part of his might be here with me.

Jolene Perry

#12. Live with radiance, dignity and strength of love.

Rajesh Walecha

#13. Only the total and unconditional acceptance of yourself makes you able to love and to be loved by others.

Human Angels

#14. Human beings never submit to human beings.

Osamu Dazai

#15. We may live in an age when everything has to be "radical" and "revolutionary." For Luther the most radical thing one could do was to learn the basics of the faith with the simple trust of a little child.

Carl R. Trueman

#16. As you can experience, the request to retrieve and say aloud your phone number or your spouse's birthday also requires a brief but significant effort, because the entire string must be held in memory as a response is organized.

Daniel Kahneman

#17. People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Eckhart Tolle

#18. When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

Gary Gygax

#19. Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

Andrew Vachss

#20. When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Jon Gordon