Synonym For The Word Quotes

#1. When someone uses the phrase 'the prick one', and you know immediately that this is a synonym for the word 'metaphorically', you are entitled to wonder whether you know the speaker too well. You are even entitled to wonder whether you should know her at all.

Nick Hornby

#2. Promises are like silly jokes, told around a table when the food is good and no one has anything to lose by telling a lie or two - lies should have been a synonym for the word 'promise' in dictionaries, but only a few people knew it.

Cameron Jace

#3. In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

Gary Hamel

#4. Illusion is the best synonym for the word religion!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

Sidney Sheldon

#6. The word introvert is not a synonym for hermit or misanthrope.

Susan Cain

#7. A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

Baltasar Gracian

#8. Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

Stephen King

#9. I found the word dwarf really offensive, but there was not one better synonym in the dictionary. Midget? Pygmy? Manikin? Homunculus? They all sounded worse to me, so I had to accept my fate.

Nick Nwaogu

#10. It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.

Bertrand Russell

#11. God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

Donna Summer

#12. Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

Saint Augustine

#13. ...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change.

That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.

Megan Abbott

#14. A few things introverts are not: The word introvert is not a synonym for hermit or misanthrope. Introverts can be these things, but most are perfectly friendly.

Susan Cain

#15. Is there another word for synonym?

George Carlin

#16. There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

Jodi Picoult

#17. I said what might have been a bad word meaning excrement, but I hope that I used a polite synonym.

Dean Koontz

#18. God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.

Terry Eagleton

#19. Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.

Tim Walberg

#20. I entered the word "crisis" into Thesaurus, it suggested "hot potato" as a synonym. I could not write this book without letting you know that Thesaurus lists "hot potato" as a synonym for "crisis.

Aziz Ansari

#21. Place yourself ... You are either a.) part of the problem; b.) part of the solution, or c.) part of the landscape.

James D. Sass

#22. Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.'

Jonathan Kozol

#23. My mom does not exist anymore, and I cannot see my mother in myself. To me, the word "mother" is the synonym for the words "parting" or "separation" or "farewell."

Kim Hyesoon

#24. Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

Ryan Tedder

#25. Love is our highest word and the synonym for God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. To deny the existence of races or to replace the word 'race' by a synonym, hoping to produce some effect on the question of racism, displays only bad faith and stupidity.

Andre Pichot

#27. Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

Charles Handy

#28. Everything turned on the word "we", a synonym for love, the thing that saves us all.

Marisa De Los Santos

#29. I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

Will Self

#30. A Man can never have too many books, too much red wine or too much ammunition.

Rudyard Kipling