Top 100 Word Quotes
#2. I do believe in the Bible as the final word of God. And I do believe that God said the Earth would not be destroyed by a flood. Now, do I believe in climate change? In my trip to Greenland, the answer is yes. The climate is changing.
John Shimkus
#3. God's Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He's promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He's told you.
Charles Stanley
#4. Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement, given when needed. An act of friendship. A passing smile.
R.J. Palacio
#5. I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.
David Levithan
#6. The reason why people are huge stars is nothing to do with acting. It's the magic. Charisma is a word that's used too often; it's something special, and it's what makes stars. It's luck, and basically, it's genes.
Shirley Eaton
#7. I often refer to myself as a radical, reminding people that the word radical comes from the Latin word radix, meaning root. I think we need to get to the roots of problems as we try to solve them. I also like the word anti-capitalist.
Cynthia Kauffman
#8. Like a word on a page that you've printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you've lost something, even if you're not sure what it is.
Sarah Dessen
#9. The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.
Lydia Millet
#10. Real joy, the kind that permeates your life and brings contentment to your soul comes from service. So no, happiness is not the word. Purpose. Contentment. Joy. To find those things, don't seek happiness. Search instead for those who need your gift and give it away.
Mia Sheridan
#11. The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note; often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce.
Yip Harburg
#12. There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad.
Jay Leno
#13. I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.
Annie Lennox
#14. The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#16. A forest - the word dates back to the Norman occupancy, when it meant an area set aside for England's violent new masters to hunt boar and deer - is necessarily larger than a wood. It belonged to the king and was a fit place for his recreation.
John Burnside
#17. History is a big word ... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.
Antonio Tabucchi
#18. Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
Carl Sandburg
#20. Okay, I should probably mention right here that Brandon used the real word, but this is my story, so I'm cleaning it up a little.
Rachel Hawkins
#22. Sellout ... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT.
Bill Withers
#23. He's only being polite. You should look the word up," Denise settled on.
Ian snorted. "And angels fly out of my arse when I fart."
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Jeaniene Frost
#24. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.
"You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.
Suzanne Collins
#25. Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric.
Charlaine Harris
#27. The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#28. Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
J.L. Austin
#29. Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
Gottfried Leibniz
#30. I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
Jessye Norman
#31. In one word, it is called Politics. But if you see closely, it is called Religion and Faith
Rudra Kapalin
#32. But no one said a word, because people hardly ever mention the very things that occur right in front of them.
Mary Ann D'Alto
#33. My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.
Raymond Pettibon
#34. I remember when my daughter was just learning her letters. She was playing in her room and came downstairs to ask me, "Momma, what does C-H-I-N-A spell?" "China," I told her (she knew what the word meant - she had friends from there). "So," she asked next, "why is it written on everything?
Annie Leonard
#35. Willpower is misunderstood. The very word suggests that wanting something badly enough bequeaths that necessary strength to achieve or overcome something. If that were the case, I'd be Michael Fassbender's missus by now.
Annmarie O'Connor
#37. I'm wary of the word glam because I think that became the all-inclusive term with for any bloke with lipstick on, which is fine, you know, and that's what it is when it comes down to the public level.
David Bowie
#38. Would it not be downright cruel to keep him in semi-captivity in a town or city, where the opportunities for wreaking havoc and destruction upon the landscape are necessarily so limited? In a word, is it right to attract Wombats?
Will Cuppy
#39. A word could cause a riot, ink could spell a man's death, and the Sidhe knew those weapons like the backs of their hands. Oh yes, they knew.
Stefan Bachmann
#40. Sometimes you completely forget your own works, your own poems, and your own words, but others remember them line by line, word for word! That is the greatest present you can ever have for your works!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. I think intimacy is a word that's used more physically than it needs to be. There are times in your life, sometimes it's when you fall in love with someone and sometimes it's when someone saves your life.
Sarah Wayne Callies
#42. There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something.
Alexander McCall Smith
#43. I erase the word and start over. I'm working on the "Everything we still don't" list. I'm tempted to write: everything important and also: whether Simon Snow is actually gay. And: whether I'll live forever.
Rainbow Rowell
#44. You cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word for it. And I know that openness is there in many people.
Eckhart Tolle
#45. The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word.
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
#46. The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.
Bruce Chatwin
#47. They are surprisingly tall
eight-year-olds. They are surprisingly like real people. Of course your own babies are always real to you, they are all there from the word go, but even strangers' children look like proper people by the aged of eight ...
Anne Enright
#48. Fortunately, among werewolf women, the word "bitch" is not offensive. I was having a lot of fun with that.
"Hey there, bitches!" I called as I came through the door. "What are my favorite bitches up to today?
Molly Harper
#49. I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the next one, writing a key word, line or verse. When this happens often enough you begin to believe in Fate.
David Massengill
#50. No one in his right mind will try to grow grapes by the luminosity of the word "day.
Paul De Man
#51. I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days
With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays
I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT
Now it's a daily word
Rakim
#52. The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as at the disposal of true prayer.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
#54. Oak had nothing finished and ready to say as yet, and not being able to frame love phrases which end where they begin; passionate tales - Full of sound and fury
- signifying nothing - he said no word at all.
Thomas Hardy
#55. Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere ... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA.
David Rockefeller
#56. Why is the word yes so brief?
it should be
the longest,
the hardest,
so that you could not decide in an instant to say it,
so that upon reflection you could stop
in the middle of saying it.
Vera Pavlova
#57. Nationalization, unmentionable only yesterday, has entered common usage not least because an even scarier word - depression - is next on America's list to avoid.
Frank Rich
#58. What I do know is that I love the whole idea of family, even the word itself.
Martin Clunes
#59. Young as I was, I still wondered what kind of man this was who, with one leg bandaged, could quell a room full of rough men with a look or a word.
Robin Hobb
#60. When we settled in to eat, Susan said, "So, tell me about it." "You shrinks are always so cocksure," I said. "Nice word choice," Susan said. "In the current context.
Robert B. Parker
#61. In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.
Roger Scruton
#62. I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.
Sarah Ruhl
#63. There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
Martin Heidegger
#64. For all my life," he said, "when someone has said the word 'beautiful', it is your face I have seen. You are my own very definition of beautiful, Tessa Gray.
Cassandra Clare
#65. It is impossible to worship God acceptably and not come to Him in right relationship to ... the Word of God.
Jack W. Hayford
#66. Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
Fernando Pessoa
#67. He hugs me. That's all he does. He hugs me tightly without a word, yet I can feel everything he's saying.
Colleen Hoover
#68. An analysis of Scripture is all right as long as it is in a very subordinate position, and as long as we are careful it does not so grip us, that we become interested only in an objective, intellectual sense. It is a unique Word, and it must not be approached just as any other book is approached.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#69. When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.
James Earl Jones
#70. Pandora. Zeus sends her off to marry Epimetheus, a not especially bright man she's never even met, along with a mysterious covered jar. Nobody tells Pandora a word about the jar. Nobody tells her not to open the jar. Naturally, she opens the jar.
Liane Moriarty
#71. Anna Campbell and I have already done a history tour of parts of the U.K., and it would be fun to invite my fellow Word Wench Cara Elliott along, too!
Nicola Cornick
#72. She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.
Michael Cunningham
#73. But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#74. [N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man.
Will Durant
#75. This should be fun see how much we can annoy them this time."
"Annoy is such a harsh word..." Tria teased.
Charon Lloyd-Roberts
#76. From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.
William Ames
#77. Bradshaw especially didn't like the use of the word "experiment" in regard to social conditions. Experiments included of necessity, expendable components. Failure was a precursor to success. When the components were human, who had the audacity to use, lose them, toss them away?
Bernadette Pajer
#78. There is a Japanese word for things made more beautiful by use, that bear the evidence of their own making, or the individuating marks of time's passage: a kind of beauty not immune to time but embedded in it.
Mark Doty
#79. You remember the word we said when we pressed our hands together, right?"
I nodded. Forem. But what does it mean?"
"Forever," he said his breath shaky. "It means we're bonded together forever.
Jessica Sorensen
#80. The main "food" God has given to strengthen us is the Bible, the Word of God.
Billy Graham
#81. Dude," I said, making the word a disgusted sound. "Single guys everywhere hate you. Starting with me.
Jim Butcher
#82. 'Cancer' is such a frightening word.
Kris Carr
#83. The English alphabet is pure insanity ... , It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.
Mark Twain
#84. Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.
H.P. Lovecraft
#85. Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.
Anthony Marra
#86. Every word has a history. Every word has an image locked into its roots.
John Ciardi
#87. The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
Alexey Leonov
#88. Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
Ziggy Marley
#89. I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#90. Word around town is you're a bit of a dick-tator.
J.M. Darhower
#91. I am the rightful khan of the nation. I am the gur-khan. My word is iron and my word is law.
Conn Iggulden
#92. God's Word should both fuel our faith and define our petitions. God must keep His Word.
Michael P. V. Barrett
#93. Psalm 107:20 says, He sent forth his word and healed them.
Beth Moore
#94. Jake had begun to carry chalk in his pockets, also. He wrote brief sentences. He tried to word them so that a man would think.
Carson McCullers
#95. I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.
William Ivey Long
#96. A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are
Heather Brewer
#97. A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
Bjorn Lomborg
#98. Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.
Rodney Stark
#99. Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can't function without the "living water" of Gods Word.
Jim George
#100. Didn't anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don't stop talking, my tongue will explode?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
