I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.
Tony Campolo

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.
Alicia Keys

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.
Steven Morrissey

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
Honore de Balzac

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus

Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.
Wayne Brady

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
Ray Charles

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
Stephen Fry

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
Stephen Fry

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
Werner Heisenberg

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.
Peter Singer

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
William Shatner

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Edwin Louis Cole

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
Erykah Badu

We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'
Studs Terkel

Failure is a word unknown to me.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah