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Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.
— Nellie L. McClung
Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.
— John D. Rockefeller
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
— Rebecca Solnit
A word of advice, Miss Evernight. The devil wears many hats. Believing in appearances, whether pretty ones or ugly ones, could find you skewered.
— Kristen Callihan
A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.
— Franklyn Ajaye
Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?
— Ellen Kushner
You cannot afford to suggest to another person, by word of mouth or in writing, or through any act, that which you yourself do not believe.
— Napoleon Hill
Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.
— Peggy Noonan
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.
— Thomas Jefferson
Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.
— Jose Marti
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
A kind word, a word of encouragement or admiration, could shift the heaviest, most recalcitrant baggage.
— Alexander McCall Smith
He would only admit a word, or an action, into a play when it satisfied some internal ruler. He made sure everything counted.
— Imraan Coovadia
I'll order anything that has the word 'fig' or 'crusted' in the menu description.
— Michael Carbonaro
A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship.
— J. Loren Norris
I agree with God's Word; I disagree with any condition, situation or circumstance contrary to that Word.
— T. B. Joshua
There were differences never to be mended, a word or an act never to be forgiven, a barrier never to be washed away.
— Alice Munro
Never a truer word said or thought. Anything was possible.
— Clive Barker
There is no word for time.Today we will
not think to number another summer
or watch its white bird into the ground. — Anne Sexton
A glance, a word and joy or pain befalls ... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny! — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When I capture my thoughts and compare them to the truth of God's Word, I often find they are false, deceptive, or destructive.
— Lori Hatcher
The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.
— Jonathan Goldman
Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive.
— Sara Sheridan
She was not curvy or big-boned; she was fat, it was the only word that felt true. And she had ignored, too, the cement in her soul.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.
— Jane Garmey
A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.
— Kenneth Tynan
Scholars tell us that there was no word in ancient Latin or Greek for "self" as it is understood in contemporary usage.
— James Carroll
The real meaning of the word paranoia isa man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected. — John Coleman
Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.
— Wes Fesler
A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire ...
— Cardinal Richelieu
I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.
— Alexandre Dumas
a man's word must be as good as an oath sworn beneath the Light or it was no good at all.
— Robert Jordan
An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.
— G. E. M. Anscombe
It is a higher glory ... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.
— Augustine Of Hippo
The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion.
— Adoniram Judson
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
— Edward Abbey
What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
— James Anthony Froude
Life is Most Important in Life is The Most important Truth in Life. Any word, thought, or action that disagrees must be a lie.
— David Wishengrad
A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
— Therese De Lisieux
The Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God; or
— John Calvin
The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
— Will Oldham
A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.
— Charles Bradlaugh
In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.
— Larry Brooks
The English word "coral" also comes from Greek, meaning "what becomes hard in the hand," "the maiden or nymph of the sea," or "the heart of the sea.
— Eric H. Borneman
Word on the street says you've taken down a lot of rich bastards.""Well, the poor bastards don't have much money, or any challenging safes. — Patrick Weekes
Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.
— Gloria Feldt
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
— Alfred North Whitehead
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
— Anne Lamott
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
— William Faulkner
A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.
— Will Durant
Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist.
— Simon Wiesenthal
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
— Werner Heisenberg
The Egyptian word Pir-em-us meant to them something of great vertical height. From this the Greek form Pyramis, or the plural Pyramides was formed.
— H. Spencer Lewis
To demand the art forms of yesterday in either word systems or art is a bourgeois failure.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it.
— Wislawa Szymborska
The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
— Martin Luther
In the end, the church will either declare the truth of God's Word, or it will find a way to run away from it.
— Albert Mohler
Not a word of it could ever be proved or disproved.
— George Orwell
Was" or "am"? What is the word for things you were and no longer are but always will be?
— Sarah Everett
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
— Karen Armstrong
Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs putting in his oar, so to speak
with some pat word or sentence. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.
— Kenneth Goldsmith
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
— Edward Abbey
Ill is the very word to speak, for none Can ransom or atone For blood once shed and darkening the plain.
— Aeschylus
A freelance is one who gets paid by the word per piece or perhaps. — Robert Benchley
Injury is done to the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or larger amount of time is devoted to indulgences than to the Word.
— Martin Luther
A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.
— Sara Sheridan
