Quotes
Quotes about Word
The stress of invention is less arduous than the strain of word for word copying
Home. I felt the promise of the prick of tears at the word, sentimental, noble, nostalgic, yearning
Gangrene? The ghastliest word, I had often thought, in the English language; it insolently connoted life
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
And they say that love is the greatest thing; they persist in SAYING this, the foul liars, and just look at what they do! Look at all the millions of people who repeat every minute that love is the greatest, and charity is the greatest--and see what they are doing all the time. By their works ye shall know them, for dirty liars and cowards, who daren't stand by their own actions, much less by their own words.
It is generally agreed that love is a moral sentiment, a community of thought rather than of sense. If that is the case, this community of thought ought to find expression in words and conversation.
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment.
Can you think of another word for "synonym"?
Egotism: Doing a crossword puzzle with a pen.
In English, every word can be verbed.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to "stink of Zen." -Alan Watts
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know." -Andre Maurois
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day as does the air around us.
