Quotes About Word

She hated to hear the word escape used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about.

Pero esperaba con paciencia. Ya no creía en el poder de la palabra. Nunca salvaba nada. A los setenta años había acabado creyendo únicamente en el tiempo.

this pestiferous person'.

final syllable of Bowie's 'Suffragette City'—the word suffragette being, perhaps not coincidentally, among the McCartney song's lyrics).

Love that bore me I bear back to my Origin with no loss, I float over the vomiter thrilled with my deathlessness, thrilled with this endlessness I dice and bury, come Poet shut up eat my word, and taste my mouth in your ear.

Giff waited out the storm, admiring — and certainly not for the first time — Hugo's gift for shredding a man's character thoroughly and at length without pausing even once to think of the right word.

I can give you my word of honor. And pray what may be the value of that? inquired the amused Regent. Monsieur, it is worth its weight in gold.

I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first thought of the mind, the first object of affection.

It was ridiculous the power she had over him. The difference between misery and happiness was the right word from her.

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not, bad luck meant bad plans.

Trust. It was a word that only liars used. A word the truthful has no need of.

La palabra secuestro es muy fea. ¿Por qué no lo considera como una invitación difícil de resistir?

I'm in no mood for jokes, Sajaam.' 'When were you ever? But it's no joke. You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.

The difference between misery and happiness was the right word from her.

Bayaz frowned. 'My brother Yulwei helped you in the desert. You would have been killed if not for him. Yo gave him your word-' 'Word? Hah! A word is an easy chain to break, old man.' And Ferro jerked her wrists apart in front of her. 'There. I am free of it.

Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.

sin, which was another word for 'live.

Para estos y otros puritanos, la evangelización era una tarea de la iglesia, en particular de sus ministros, centrada en la Palabra. Ellos entendieron adecuadamente la centralidad de la predicación, el rol del pastor, y la necesidad de la oración en la evangelización

In this wise, do we understand that there is not a spiritual universe and a material world, but rather that what appears as our world is the Word made flesh, Spirit made visible, or Consciousness expressed as idea.

Goodbye forever" is the perfect joke, because forever is impossible. Every night I say it, and every morning I see my father again. Forever is meaningless. Tough talk, an empty threat. Forever is our secret handshake. Our code word. Our decoder ring. Not a measurement of time at all. I know this because "Goodbye Forever" comes easily. The passage of actual time is much more difficult.

Everything that man in the beginning heard, saw with his eyes, contemplated, and felt with his hands, was a living word. For God was the Word. With this Word in his mouth and in his heart, the origin of language was as natural, as near and easy, as child's play.

How can I not be? How can you not be? We are after all. –– Not be! What does that mean? It is only a word, a mere sound, which stirs nothing in me.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.