Quotes of: Simple-words Keyword

Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. and are the worst.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Parents who always whisper the word "sex" unintentionally tell their kids, "I don't want to talk about this. Get your answers elsewhere.

Sex: What Your Parents Didn't Tell You

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

So …” Jack clears his throat. “We …” Is Jack Coombs at a loss for words? I guess we don’t have to worry about the performance since the world is clearly going to end.

Take a Bow

The sublime beauty was almost hidden withing the castle walls. She believed that the treasured things in life were often hard to find - a pearl in an oyster shell, a kind word in the heat of the moment.

Take Me to the Castle

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

The Truth About Forever

My dearest Pudding pie" I read aloud. "Yes, my little turnip?" "Hilarious," I muttered. "If you ever call me anything of the sort again we shall have words.

Threshold

Your mother is going to be fine," the nurse says. I breathe more easily but the word settles into my stomach. Fine. Was she fine before?

This Is How I Find Her

The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from inability to find the right words, he had developed almost a passion for silence.

Therese

I went to visit my dad. He didn’t say a word to me. Or if he did, I couldn’t hear it through the grass, the dirt, and his coffin lid.

This Book Title is Invisible

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Optimism

All this. They have all this, and what do we get? Walls and tickets and concrete and stink. Rations and hopelessness and rage. I hate them,” she said, the malice in her words like the lingering taste of a bad kiss.

Otherborn

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won’t want to gossip.

One-Minute Inspirations for Women

Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.

Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953

In difficult times bring to mind my words and the sound of my voice. In that way, I shall always be present for you.

Patience, Princess Catherine

Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Here's my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot. (No. That isn't a real Vocab word.)

Please Ignore Vera Dietz

He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

Parade's End

Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

A Poetry Handbook