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I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.
Josh McDowell

God, View, Percent

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.
Russell Simmons

Money, Successful, Help

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Alone, Live, Sometimes

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Alone, Live, Sometimes

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
Leonard Cohen

Structure, Deeply, Rhythm

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak

Art, Saying, Literature

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.
Megan Fox

Fact, Story, Create

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
Wallace Stevens

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
Stephen Fry

Writer, Paper, Somehow

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
Mark Harmon

Work, Good, Easier

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
James Joyce

Mind, Through, Her

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
Muhammad Iqbal

Power, Philosophy, Mere

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Famous, Book, Made

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
Camille Paglia

Poetry, Down, Word

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
James A. Michener

Love, Human, Writing

The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham

Cannot, Body, Says

When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.
Tony Parsons

Love, Change, Beautiful

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
Deborah Bull

Powerful, Through, Understand

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
William Morris

Experience, Important, Understand

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James

Beautiful, Two, Language

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras

Great, Few, Deal

'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.
Susan Orlean

Thought, Brave, Light

There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word 'monetize' has to rank high among them. Also,'incentivize.' Actually, all the '-ize' words, like 'contextualize' and 'utilize' and 'prioritize.' And - this is almost too horrible to type -'juniorize.'
Susan Orlean

Bad, Word, High

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.
John Mayer

Mother, Trying, Impress

I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.
Jennifer Lopez

Work, Hope, End

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
Anne Lamott

Life, Faith, Together

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.
Henry Louis Gates

Live, Father, Through

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
Alan Rickman

Change, Mean, Different

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Best, Poetry, Remember

Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Best, Poetry, Order

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