Quotes of: Simple-words Keyword

Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels from the library.  This book I had again and again perused with delight. 

Jane Eyre

Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.

Just Listen

The word "impossible" is only in the mind And not in the heart. If we can remain in the heart, There will be no end to our progress.

The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is!

Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Book of Leadership: The 12.5 Strengths of Responsible, Reliable, Remarkable Leaders That Create Results, Rewards, and Resilience

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.

Jesus: The Only Way to God: Must You Hear the Gospel to Be Saved?

And she says, “Then let’s just take the effing road and get ourselves to Haven.” I smile, a little. “You said ,” I say. “You actually said the word .

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials t...

Killosophy

It’s true what they say, that words are the true weapons. Those who fight with steel are limited to the strength of their arm, the reach of their blade, and the timing of their strike; but those who fight with persuasion know no limits – not time...

Rise of the Morningstar

Do you know what passion is?” I blink, confused. “Most people think it only means desire. Arousal. Wild abandon. But that’s not all. The word derives from the Latin. It means suffering. Submission. Pain and pleasure, Nikki. Passion.

Release Me

At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling period wisdom sets in; finally, the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.

Relax: New And Selected Poems: New And Selected Poems

One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in E...

The Road to Wigan Pier

Religion is to follow someone else's word as truth; whereas Spirituality is to discover your own truth through inquiry, experimentation and experience.

Return to Love: A Guide to Inner Peace, Emotional Healing and Spiritual Transformation

If my time loving you has taught me anything, it’s that love grows with every returned smile, every second of communal silence and every word exchanged. Unconditional love is built and when it’s finished nothing destroys it.

Revived

The task is the same in every generation: If God's Word is to be heard, we who love it must stand in its defense.

Scripture Alone: Exploring the Bible's Accuracy, Authority, and Authenticity

The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Fle...

Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America

This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone; that's what I want to explain - one of those free-association moments with connections that dissolve when you start to try to put them into words.

Stay Awake

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

The Secret Life of Bees

I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.

Scarlet

You will never have confidence in your prayers if you fail to be prudent with your words.

Speaking The Father's Blessing: 52 Blessings and 365 Promises To Speak Over Your Children

...every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

The Salinger Contract

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

Scribbling the Cat