Quotes of: Simple-words Keyword

Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.

The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

Live then, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day God deigns to reveal the future to man, the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words; Wait and Hope.

Sleepers

Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?" "I don't know. I've never done either.

The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady

All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

Middlemarch

Just keep in mind," Liaro said, "they're not going to remember the words. They'll remember how you made them feel. Make them feel something.

The Mirror Empire

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

My Life in France

When you study God’s Word and incorporate His wisdom and principles into your daily life, your whole perspective will change.

Moments of Grace for a Woman's Heart

Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.

A Man After God's Own Heart

Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.

Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

My Sister's Keeper

The coverlet warmed her legs. The firelight wobbled over the pages. Maelyn sank into the world the words wrapped around her, hushing everything that hurt, and seeping tranquility right down to her toes. She was home.

Maelyn

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

My Name is Mina

... I since cricket match do long to talk with one of my arms around you, then place both arms round you and share with you, the above now seems sweeter to me than words can say.

Maurice

A grieving son was given the opportunity to write parting words on a card at his mother's funeral. He quoted the verse, "And morning came and Jesus was standing on the shore.

And Morning Came: Scriptures of the Resurrection

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

The Message Remix

You are not one of Pentrigrel’s creations. This is not where you belong. He will not keep his word to you. He is concerned only with himself. You cannot condemn yourself to this over Lunette’s fate.

Masque of Shadow

Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.

Midnight Tides

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

The Metalogicon of John of Salsibury: A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say . These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very .

Margherita Dolce Vita