Quotes of: Words Keyword

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

The Complete Poems

Thoughts become things? True, but that analysis is not complete - we need to add two more words: thoughts become things through energy.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

He wanted to crumple her up and toss her from his mind like a scrap piece of paper filled with nonsensical doodles or dissonant words that formed unbalanced rhymes. Yet, he refused throw her away.

Captive

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

Cutting for Stone

Excerpt: Here are some thoughts from Charlene the Star: “I’ll bet that’s why Mama put the word “Star” in my name. I have a feeling I’m going to be a star as a jumper.

Charlene the Star

The master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts, and bind it upon your foreheads.

Cutting for Stone

In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

Are you aware that Jesus Christ can spell? I get so tired of you spelling every slang and cuss word that crosses your mind, as though you are pulling one over on the Lord.

Dogwood Blues

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Today's word was , meaning never-ending. Like his loneliness. Like the love he felt for Kate. Like the awful hurt that wouldn't go away.

Dawn Comes Early

Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

The Diary of a Young Girl

What's poetry?" I've never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful woman turning in a long dress.

Delirium

Use your safe word if you get scared, honey.” “I’m fine.” Her voice came out husky. “Yes, you are, aren’t you?

Doms of Dark Haven 2: Western Nights

Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.

Democracy: An American Novel

Every intentional thought, word, or deed-right now and in your past-it all makes you what you are today. Your choices, not your neighbor's or your wife's or you boyfriend's-your decisions determine your karma.

Distortion: A Novel

Never let the words of discouragement from others sway you away from reaching far with your dreams.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

What god will catch me when I'm down, when I've taken sufficient drink to reveal myself, when my words are little more than a blurring of consonant and vowel?

Dhaka Dust: Poems

Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.

Drown

CPR dummy looked like him and had clearly been stabbed. Repeatedly. In the groin. He thought she might have used the dummy for target practice, and tried not to be offended. Key word: tried.

The Darkest Secret

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

Death on the Air and Other Stories