Top 100 Word In Quotes
#1. There is no other word in the English language more life-changing than Hello
Patrick Stevens
#2. I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.
Victoria Osteen
#3. - "Control what an interesting word for you to be dwelling on"
- "I have other words" I scream the F-Word in my head, over and over again.
Kiersten White
#4. I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
Thomas Jefferson
#5. Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#6. Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
Eric Maisel
#7. Did God dictate every single word [in Torah]? I don't know!
Dennis Prager
#8. I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and insatiable as well as a desire to learn and use every word in the English language that didn't sound pretentious or ditzy.
Pat Conroy
#9. Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
Alain Badiou
#10. To be a minister of the Word in any capacity, one MUST experience a call.
Debora Hooper
#11. One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.
Robert Dessaix
#12. Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.
Alistair Begg
#13. Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.
Anais Nin
#14. The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
William Hazlitt
#15. The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
Ibrahim Babangida
#16. A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.
Anthony Burgess
#17. He led her to the bedroom, he took off her clothes, without a word, in the manner of an owner undressing a person whose consent is not required. He clasped the pendant on her shoulders. She stood naked, the stone between her breasts, like a sparkling drop of blood.
Ayn Rand
#18. I arise to day ... In the name of Silence / Womb of the Word, / In the name of Stillness / Home of Belonging, / In the name of the Solitude / of the Soul and the Earth
John O'Donohue
#19. Equestrian, by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians.
Lewis Black
#20. Ps 119:89-91: The settled Word in Heaven makes for a solid foundation on earth and a safe path for today.
Jim Elliot
#21. It is the dream of every white person to be able to resolve all conflicts by complaining to unrelated parties. Because of this, white people are able to endure years of frustration and anger without saying a word in the hopes that everything will just work itself out without having to make a scene.
Christian Lander
#23. He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.
George Lucas
#24. What does it mean to walk by faith? It means to obey God's Word in spite of the feelings within us, the circumstances around us, and the consequences before us.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#25. Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.
Albert Brooks
#26. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary was 'Sky'.
Colleen Hoover
#27. As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.
Henning Mankell
#28. For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are told, every word in it has three score and ten "toptypsical" meanings - an exaggeration, of course, but an important reminder to readers who like their fiction definite.
Philip Kitcher
#29. My fault? How the hell is this"
I waved my arm across the table
my fault?"
"You know we don't believe in hell, so stop using that word in our presence," Bridie said.
"Fine. How in fucked-up fairyland is this my fault?
Barbra Annino
#30. The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).
Augusto Boal
#31. Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.
Bill Cosby
#32. It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy.
George Orwell
#33. 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
#34. Miwanzo is the word in Swahili for "beginnings." But sometimes everything has to end first and the bottom drop out and every light fizzle and die before a proper beginning can come along.
Paula McLain
#35. I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up.
Bill Nighy
#37. In the church we call that the power of the Living Word. In the same way that God creates by speaking God's word, we too co-create (although on a much smaller scale) our church and the world around us by how we perceive it and the kinds of stories we tell about it.
Andrew Doyle
#38. I doubt there is even a word in Afghani for peace. Nearest to it is probably a phrase that translates as "just getting my break back and reloading
Nick Revell
#39. She also knows full well that "shy" is a negative word in our society. Above all, do not shame her for her shyness.
Susan Cain
#40. To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility. - BELL HOOKS1
Brene Brown
#41. Welcome!" I said - the most dangerous word in the world.
Eudora Welty
#42. But, deep in her heart she knew more than what the words read or heard seemed to say. She knew that every letter in every word in every war bulletin was, somewhere, first written in blood of men, of human beings, who had once smiled and sung songs, eaten, drunk, slept and loved.
Kate Seredy
#43. So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence.
Meryl Streep
#44. Words have power. Words created this universe ... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, 'In the beginning was the word.' In the same way, your words have creative power.
Bo Sanchez
#45. Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Federico Fellini
#46. I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'
Beyonce Knowles
#47. We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.
Paul Ryan
#48. I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."
Charles Spurgeon
#49. I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.
Eva Longoria
#50. The word detox does not appear in the main textbook on cancer or the main medical textbook ... the word in medicine refers to heroin addicts and getting them off heroin ... they do not conceive that their are such things as toxins created by a tumour ... where do they think it all goes?
Ralph W. Moss
#51. Hope is an abstract word. In fact, it is more than just a word; hope is an abstruse concept, meaning different things to each of us during different times and circumstances of our lives. Even politicians know its hold on the human mind, and the mind of the electorate.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#52. Pharmakon means drug, but as Jacques Derrida and others have pointed out, the word in Greek famously refuses to designate whether poison or cure. It holds both in the bowl.
Maggie Nelson
#53. The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers of the word' in faith and love, and not the 'mere hearers,' who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness.
Martin Luther
#54. I mean, he did say vagina, didn't he? And if he did, then how come it sounded so exciting? Vagina is pretty much the least exciting word in the world. It's something your doctor says to you shortly before he invades it with what looks like a weapon from our robotic future.
Charlotte Stein
#55. Become 'tested' in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up.
Dada Bhagwan
#56. If I program 'ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it," Scile said. "If I do the same with a word in Language, and play it to an Ariekes, I understand it, but to them it means nothing, because it's only sound, and that's not where the meaning lives. It needs a mind behind it.
China Mieville
#57. They are asking that everyone dress up as the decline of the printed word in a society reverting to a state of brainless animality.
Joseph Fink
#58. Who says reading should be easy? Shouldn't it challenge you as hard sometimes as love. Maybe "hard" is not the right word in this context. Ha!
Hilton Als
#59. In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends ...
William Makepeace Thackeray
#60. It is hardly lonely in a nunnery, son, with other women. And God is there."
Morgause said, "I would rather dwell in a hermitage in the forest than in a house full of chattering ladies! If God is there, it must be hard for him to get a word in edgewise!
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#61. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
Tavis Smiley
#62. Who would I have chosen? If none of this had happened, if Kilorn's master never died, if Gisa's hand was never broken, if nothing ever changed. If. It's the worst word in the world.
Victoria Aveyard
#63. Another faculty has released this knowledge: our spirit. It is God's Word in our spirit. It creates a reality that registers in our spirit. We live by this spiritual knowledge and walk in its light.
Phil Pringle
#64. And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.
Herman Cain
#65. Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence.
William Allen White
#66. The kindest word in the world is the unkind word left unsaid.
Ashwin Sanghi
#67. Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder why that is? The only reason could be: To Serve the Devil - Pleasure! Pleasure, which is a dirty word in Christian culture.
Lenny Bruce
#68. I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself.
Brad Pitt
#69. If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns.
Al Ries
#70. Follow me." When about to leave for heaven, He gave them a new word, in which their more intimate and spiritual union with Himself in glory should be expressed. That chosen word was: "Abide in me." It is to be feared that there
Andrew Murray
#71. Kell would say it was impossible. What a useless word, in a world with magic.
V.E Schwab
#72. I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.
Sally Potter
#73. Hey," Pavlicek held on, "what's the most bullshit word in the English language." "Closure." "Give that man a cigar," Pavlicek said, then hung up.
Harry Brandt
#74. I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.
Charles Darwin
#75. 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
#76. Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#77. 'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
Raymond Arroyo
#78. They had thought him such a 'good' man. They should have learned it was dangerous to trust appearances or take strangers at their word in this shit-hole world.
John Jakes
#79. ELECTION (Gk. eklog, "choice," a "picking out"). Bible Meaning. This word in the Scriptures has three distinct applications. (1) To the divine choice of nations or communities for the possession of special
Merrill F. Unger
#80. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if 'Thou mayest' - it is also true that 'Thou mayest not.
John Steinbeck
#81. A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.
G.H. Hardy
#82. Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#83. The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship at the altar of creativity, which really means 'originality': The most dangerous word in the lexicon of advertising
David Ogilvy
#84. Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
Bernard Crick
#86. The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#88. Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.
Robert A. Heinlein
#89. It became the middle finger I couldn't raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war.
Robin Olds
#90. 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
#91. So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
Alexandre Dumas
#93. They say that each word in the Quran has seven thousand layers of meaning, each of which, though some might seem contrary or simply unfathomable to us, exist equally at all times without cosmological contradiction.
G. Willow Wilson
#94. When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear.
Geraldine Brooks
#95. For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#96. Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place.
Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said.
Oh shut up!" Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up?
Diana Wynne Jones
#97. I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.
Knut Hamsun
#98. They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much care. Each word in answer may prove to the after-life what each finger-touch of the artist is to the clay he is modelling.
Lew Wallace
#99. I never know the heron as it flies at first. What is the slow, wide-winged figure in the sky? Then I see it, like a word in a foreign language, like seeing one's own name written in a strange alphabet and recognizing it, I say it: the heron.
Ursula K. Le Guin
