Word Quotes

The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Material, Durable

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller

Break, Worse, Keeping

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
Charles Stanley

Life, Christian, Line

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.
Cornel West

Life, Power, Crisis

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.
Marilyn Manson

Stupid, Matured

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
John D. Rockefeller

Faith, Fight, Battle

Every creature is a word of God.
Meister Eckhart

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
Jerry Seinfeld

God, End, Important

The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
Charles Stanley

Time, Jesus, Face

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Horace

Cannot, Once, Escape

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Jim Elliot

God, After, Wind

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Beauty, Sadness, Farewell

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

Future, Impossible, Place

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Michel de Montaigne

Nothing, Play, Vanity

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
Jessamyn West

Broken, Forever, Wound

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Graham Greene

Great, Everything, Boring

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
Billy Sunday

God, Bible, Cover

It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.
Marilyn Manson

Hurt, Find, Else

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
Alexander Pope

Reputation, Dies

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
Dave Barry

Mean, Idiot, Used

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
Stephen Colbert

Mean, Everything, Country

Tolerance is another word for indifference.
W. Somerset Maugham

Another, Tolerance

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen

Children, Made, Show

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
Euripides

Time, Nothing, Friend

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Before, Speak, Fall

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
Sophocles

Fear, Acting, Feels

If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word.
Charles Stanley

God, Give, Keep

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Ansel Adams

True, Rather, Minds

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells

America, Working, Else

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

God, Thankful, Idea

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