Quotes of: Word Keyword

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen the...

Ursula K. Le Guin

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Al Capone

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

Tullian Tchividjian

Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.

Bruce Feiler

Home will always be where comfort is, even if that comfort is pain

Crucified for 33 Thoughts: Spoken Word Poems: Crucified for 33 Thoughts: Spoken Word Poems

If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed hope into my soul. Six words. “You’re not crazy. I love you.

Lauren Hammond

Authority to dream is not given, it is taken. Take it. Do not let the judgment of others be the final word. Without a doubt, if there is a one-word, one-step cure for bad peg moments, that word is perseverance. Let that be your final word.

J Loren Norris

I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experienced but didn't know there was a word for. Like 'toothpack' - that is a word for when you eat biscuits or cookies and you get that annoying layer of chewe...

Mary Roach

When you're having an asthma attack, you don't have any breath. When you don't have any breath, it's hard to speak. You're limited by the amount of air you can spend from your lungs. That's not much, something between three to six words. It gives the...

Unknown

Kindness beautifies your words. Love sweetens your words. Wisdom empowers your words.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.

J. G. Ballard

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Sophocles

America’s problem, in a word, is politicians. In two words, it’s politicians and lobbyists. In three words, it’s politicians, lobbyists, and lawyers. And finally, in four words, it’s politicians, lobbyists, lawyers, and bankers.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the p...

I Am the Cheese

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

The Name of the Wind

. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolving within the trees—then, fleeting words of consolation would not suffice if feigned, and flippant words confessed reluctance—our words were meaningless uttered on the wind. . .

paulinskill hours and other poems

Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed.

Delirium

A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.

We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere

Each year's regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.

We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

The Dhammapada