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When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
Taylor Swift

Single, Big, Dream

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Jules Renard

Thinking, Enough, Storm

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

Silence, Sword, Hesitate

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
Andrew Jackson

Mind, Two, Poor

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

Virtue, Useful, Vices

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
Richard Dawkins

Beauty, Great, Human

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
Chuck Palahniuk

Age, Best, Everything

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin Disraeli

Politics, May, Practice

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
Peter Tosh

Life, Good, Best

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.
Marco Rubio

Thought, Company, Liberal

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
John D. MacDonald

Change, Yourself, Integrity

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot

Best, Fear, Failure

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Tecumseh

Lonely, Friend, Give

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

Nothing, Lovers, Using

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera

Love, Woman, Her

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Time, May, Thought

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
Stephen King

Time, Write, Answer

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee

Cannot, Wish, Less

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
Johnny Cash

Love, Death, Father

A word once uttered can never be recalled.
Horace

Once, Recalled, Uttered

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Sophocles

Life, Love, Pain

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.
Richard Dawkins

Door, Face, Miracle

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
John Ruskin

Him, Higher, Stands

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
William Lyon Phelps

Respect, Student, Private

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
Horace

Once, Abroad, Flies

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
Carlos Ghosn

Deep, Commitment, Favorite

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.
Stephen Fry

Depression, Point, Hear

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
Henry Miller

Beginning, Act, Actor

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
John Ruskin

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Jesus Christ

God, Alone, Live

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