Top 100 Word For Quotes
#1. There are many kinds of open ... Love is a word, another kind of open ... Take my word for jewel in your open light.
Audre Lorde
#2. Telling an adult to go see something for themselves always works. They never take your word for it. They always, always, have to go see, and Hungry was no different.
Lemony Snicket
#3. The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.'
Anthony Foxx
#4. Isn't it funny how freedom is only another word for slavery?
Lionel Suggs
#6. Even now, when I have time to consider what I've been and what I am, I doubt I comprehend my humanity, if I can claim so grand a word for my own morsel of life. I might as well be a meteor of a man, for all the difference I've made on earth.
Norman Lock
#8. One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food - lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt this before.
M.L. Rio
#9. No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.
Gilbert Gottfried
#10. He was weeping. Although 'weeping' really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from his eyes. A small puddle had formed at his feet. I am not exaggerating. The king, it seemed, was intent on crying himself a river.
Kate DiCamillo
#11. I want to tell him that what he did was nice, but nice is such a silly word for kindness. Anyone could pretend to be nice. What Silas did was innate. Boldfaced kindness.
Colleen Hoover
#12. Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.
Michael Pollan
#13. In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable.
John Green
#14. Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!
Homer
#15. Breakneck is the MC name, but it's also a word for our family. He's asking if I'm laying a claim forever on her. That is the kind of claim that we would risk everything for.
Crystal Spears
#16. about Tiffany's, that the famous little blue box was almost a by-word for true New York-style fairy-tale romance. According to her, there wasn't a woman in the world who could resist it;, the store and its wares enchanting the dreams of millions.
Melissa Hill
#17. I was just about to open the door, when it opened up right in front of me. And there stood my parents.
Is there a word for that moment when two parties are so equally shocked to see each other given the circumstances that all they can do is stare at each other, openmouthed?
August Westman
#18. The Greek word for abide used in John 8:31-32 and John 15:4-5 is the same word that's used for living in a house. The idea is that we don't just visit the Word for 10 minutes a day. We live in the Word. Meditate on it. Chew on it as we walk through the day.
Barb Raveling
#19. There is not a scrabble word for how bad I feel." -We Were Liars
E. Lockhart
#20. There is no word for the emotion between pity and love, or for the one between longing and sorrow.
Carrie Anne Noble
#21. There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.
Max Brooks
#23. ...sin, which was another word for 'live.
Joe Hill
#24. If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.
Philippe Petit
#25. "Pop" was a dirty word for a really long time and it feels like that's not the case anymore.
Lizzy Plapinger
#26. Cheese. Cheeeeeese. What a thin, flat, nasal-sounding word for such a luscious, rich, gorgeous thing. Hard. Soft. Ripe. Grainy. Creamy. Often stinky. I'd yet to find a cheese I didn't adore.
Alice Clayton
#27. Why there is word for "End"???, which mean why there is "End",...!?
(So far it doesn't exist!?)
Deyth Banger
#28. Marriage is a big word for all guys," Shane said. "You know that. It's kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.
Rachel Caine
#29. Research is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING
Rayne Hall
#30. In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'
James Surowiecki
#31. I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
David McCullough
#32. There's a word for people you hate, but not enough to let them die...
...Family
Ryan Parrott
#33. I'm beginning to think cookies is a code word for something else."
"Maybe it is." He tugged on my bag again as he took a confident step back, forcing me down another step. "And just think about it. If cookie was a code word, whatever it symbolizes, it's been in your mouth, sweetheart.
J. Lynn
#34. Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!
Henry James
#35. I think you can still look to Jesus' word for guidance in your life. It's just not the guidance that it seems like most Christians are applying to their own lives.
Craig Thompson
#36. George W. Bush, the former US president, is reputed to have complained that the problem with the French is that they do not have a word for entrepreneurship in their language.
Ha-Joon Chang
#37. She laughed. There should be a word for a laugh that ends as soon as it starts. A laugh that's more a syllable of surprise and acknowledgment than it is anything else.
Rainbow Rowell
#38. For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
Florence Nightingale
#39. I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. There's a word for an author who doesn't give up ... published.
J.A. Konrath
#42. Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#44. As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.
Horace
#45. Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
Alan Perlis
#46. Sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Scott Adams
#47. Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.
Ti-Grace Atkinson
#48. Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.
Lorrie Moore
#49. I don't want to wake up dead tommorrow and realize I didn't even try.
Luck my ass! Luck is just another word for hard work and an open mind.
Ryan E. Day
#50. Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.
Anthony McGowan
#51. Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
Anonymous
#52. Did you know there are 32 names for love in one of the Eskimo language? And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have more ways to say it.
Sue Monk Kidd
#53. She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.
Gayle Forman
#54. There is only one word for a book that exceeds all expectations ... Divergentbyveronicaroth. On second thoughts, that's four words combined!
Ella
#55. Troubled is a polite word for what I am.
Gabrielle
#56. No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
Salman Rushdie
#57. Eskimos have five words for different kinds of snow, because they live with it and it is important to them. But the Aztec language has but one word for snow, rain, and hail.
Alan W. Watts
#58. Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.
Peter Singer
#59. I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"
Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?
Emma Donoghue
#60. Sadan was so...beautiful. There seemed no other word for him, even if he had proved to be an ass and deserved to die in lakes of his own blood.
J.C. Owens
#61. Was" or "am"? What is the word for things you were and no longer are but always will be?
Sarah Everett
#62. What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?
Simon Hoggart
#63. Helping people was always a mistake ...
Trust was a word for fools. It was a word people used when they meant to betray you.
Joe Abercrombie
#64. Sincerity in personal advertisements is a code word for commitment, used by women to screen out men seeking casual sex without any commitment.
David M. Buss
#65. We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.
John Ortberg
#66. The early Sumerian pictograph for god was an asterisk, the symbol of the stars. The early Aztec word for god was Teotl, and its glyph was a representation of the Sun. The heavens were called Teoatl, the godsea, the cosmic ocean.
Carl Sagan
#67. God rewards the person who is diligent. And for those who will take time in their day to seek the Lord, for those who will take time to read His Word, for those who will take time to wait upon Him, He will reveal His truths to them.
Greg Laurie
#68. There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.
Cesar Millan
#69. What is the most difficult word for young people to pronounce? It's the word no. When we say no [to what is against God], He will help us to stand by it. He will give us courage.
Billy Graham
#70. Is she sane?' asked Mrs. Linton, appealing to me. 'I'll repeat our conversation, word for word, Isabella; and you point out any charm it could have had for you.
Emily Bronte
#71. There are very few Japanese Jews. As a result, there is no Japanese word for Alan King.
Johnny Carson
#73. It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.
Gregory Maguire
#74. Tell me, is it true there's no word for Schadenfreude in English?
Amos Oz
#75. 'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
David R. Brower
#76. Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.
Robert B. Parker
#77. Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.
Terry Goodkind
#78. My improv definitely shows a different side of myself, which is more true to what my real humor is and what my real personality is, and I think - I guess 'wild' is a good word for it. I'm still sweet! But I won't let anyone walk all over me.
Lauren Lapkus
#79. Do you know the Ai'oan word for heart? he asks.
I shake my head.
"It's py'a." We're so close, his whisper is right in my ear, and his breath warms the side of my neck. "You are my heart, Pia.
Jessica Khoury
#80. How - I didn't know any
word for it - how "unlikely" ...
How had I come to be here,
like them, and overhear
a cry of pain that could have
got loud and worse but hadn't?
Elizabeth Bishop
#81. If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you have God's word for it; what more is needed?
Charles Spurgeon
#82. Stud," D repeated, growly and low. Jack snorted. "You got a better word for a guy who's swept my chimney five times in one night?
Jane Seville
#83. Could it be found, a single word for today and yesterday, with their jumble of indistinguishable, all too complicated colors, a word to embrace all the tomorrows? (O 1989: 229)
O Chonghui
#84. I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.
Andrew Stanton
#85. Now why should there be a special word for a man with dark skin? There was no special word for a man with blue eyes, or large ears, or curly hair.
Isaac Asimov
#86. Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.
Steve Martin
#87. You seem ... unsettled." Was "unsettled" another word for horny enough to climb the walls? Because if so, then yes, I was most definitely unsettled.
Jay Crownover
#88. Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.
Sharyn McCrumb
#89. She stood, as it were, with her face to God and her back to the people, waiting to receive His word for the 'chose people.' She had a vision of holy living. She would not deviate from that no matter how well-established, rational, and practical the ways of older missions seemed to be.
Elisabeth Elliot
#90. When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
James Altucher
#91. I think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I'm really a lucky man. I've always accepted whatever I was in, whether it was driving a taxi or entertaining. The jet set might not enjoy what I do, but I deal with the average person.
Don Ho
#92. Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.
David James Duncan
#93. The word for 'book' in all the known languages of the earth is vallon, 'chamber of words' ...
Sofia Samatar
#94. I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.
Suzanne Collins
#95. I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.
Sam Sheppard
#96. You said that it was because almost held failed potential. That it represented our ability to be just not good enough, that we had come to the brink of something beautiful but fell short so many times we crafted a word for it.
Bianca Phipps
#97. For the first few years I wrote jokes and performed them word for word and then wrote tags for them and did that word for word and that worked pretty well. Now, I do almost all of my writing on stage and then record and listen for any new things and then I write those down.
Gary Gulman
#98. Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"
Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?"
"Like what things?"
"Jobs, I guess. Friends. Trips. Hobbies.
Emma Donoghue
#99. Golf baffles me. They says it's a sport, and I have to take their word for it, but anything that involves having fun while standing up doesn't interest me. That includes dancing. NASCAR I can understand. In fact, anything that involves sitting down automatically has my interest ...
Gary Reilly
#100. She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless.
Helen Oyeyemi
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