Word Quotes - page 5

Those who marry God can become domesticated too it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night. (Graham Greene)
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. View quote
Alfred Marshall
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it. View quote
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. View quote
Marguerite Duras
When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. View quote
Cicero
The unspoken word never does harm. View quote
Lajos Kossuth
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. View quote
Simone Weil
Painting is with me but another word for feeling. View quote
John Constable
Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything! (Steve Martin)
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff. View quote
Aleister Crowley
The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean. View quote
G. H. Hardy
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. View quote
Henry Miller
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. View quote
Henry Miller
God - but a word invoked to explain the world. (Alphonse de Lamartine)
GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
We may have had music before we had a word for it. View quote
Daniel Levitin
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. View quote
Joseph Addison