Quotes of: Words Keyword

However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them

The Metamorphosis

It dances on the air for a moment before it falls, too. A fresh gust of wind almost saves it, but a worker catches sight of it and lifts a tube up to suck the paper from the air, to suck the words from the sky. I'm sorry, Grandfather.

Matched

Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).

Made in the Image of God: Understanding the Nature of God and Mankind in a Changing World

Though I thought there weren't any words any more, only fucking signifiers. And since texts have no objective univocal meaning, I feel sure that when I call you a bunch of moronic cunts you will be able to decode that sequence of sequential signifier...

Mayday

I have found out the hard way that the path from victim to victory hinges on one word…Choose.

And Now I Choose: A Story for Those Who Believe They Have No Choice

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Sometimes you just have to stop and take in your surroundings. Really look at where you are in life, otherwise it's just going to pass you by. Regret is a heavy word to live with." - Riley

Nature’s Destiny

I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound like a twelve-year-old girl with pee running down her leg. I felt dirty and stupid.

No Hope for Gomez!

He thought again of the watch in the window. It had twelve black numbers on its moon face and there was magic to that. For these were numbers that were not really numbers at all but letters like in words. He shivered at the possibilities of such unto...

The Night of the Hunter

One word can change your life forever. I love you I hate you Think about it

The Natural Mind - Waking Up: Volume I

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others--using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers.

Night Music

It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.

The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone

I wear the lens of the Word and all the world transfigures into the Beauty of Christ and 'everything is eucharisteo'.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.

Oryx and Crake

The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan’s own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.

The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

Love is a four-letter word. So is glue, only it isn’t as sticky. And I must admit, I still eat it all the time.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

The institution asked me to speak and say a few words. So, knowing a few is three, I said, I love you.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

Looking for Alibrandi

Men know the damage a few words can do to girls’ hearts, and, idiots that we are, we swoon away and fall into the trap, excited because at last a man has set one for us

La liste de mes envies

Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.

Living Dead Girl