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Quotes About Word

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.
~ Stephen Dobyns
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
~ Robert Bresson
I wouldn't say that I was a Spider-Man super fan.
~ Jon Watts
The longer i live, the more urgent it seems to me to endure and transcribe the whole dictation of existence up to its end, for it might just be the case that only the very last sentence contains that small and possibly inconspicuous word through which everything we had struggled to learn and everything we had failed to understand will be transformed into magnificent sense.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Things are not all as graspable and sayable as on the whole we are led to believe; most events are unsayable, occur in a space that no word has ever penetrated, and most unsayable of all are works of art, mysterious existences whose life endures alongside ours, which passes away.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The foremost watchman on the peak announces his news. It is the truest word ever spoken, and the phrase will be th fittest, most musical, and the unerring voice of the world for that time.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I believe ultimate happiness is found only in God, then I will shut out distractions and open His Word.
~ Randy Alcorn
Slova Cuvântului este veche, dar binecuvântarea e mereu nou?.
~ Ravi Zacharias
The sense of this, it seemed to me, might be that from above or below, or from any point of the compass, the creative Word might be heard, which is the great thesis of democracy. Democracy assumes that anybody from any quarter can speak, and speak truth, because his mind is not cut off from the truth. All he has to do is clear out his passions and then speak.
~ Joseph Campbell
The sense of this, it seemed to me, might be that from above or below, or from any point of the compass, the creative Word might be heard, which is the great thesis of democracy.
~ Joseph Campbell
And a word carries far-very far-deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
~ Joseph Conrad
There is a weird power in a spoken word.
~ Joseph Conrad
You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. I don't say this by way of disparagement. It is better for mankind to be impressionable than reflective. Nothing humanely great—great, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come from reflection.
~ Joseph Conrad
My task...is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to make you see. That - and no more - and it is everything.
~ Joseph Conrad
listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed to shape itself without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river.
~ Joseph Conrad
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
~ Joseph Conrad
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~ Joseph Conrad
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~ Joseph Devlin
Make a choice now! Begin to think constructively and harmoniously. To think is to speak. Your thought is your word. Let your words be as a honeycomb, sweet to the ear, and pleasant to the bones. Let your words be like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
~ Joseph Murphy