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Quotes About Word

I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
~ Sammy Davis Jr.
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
~ Samuel Beckett
Mention but the word "divinity," and our sense of the divine is clouded.
~ Samuel Butler
A verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
~ Samuel Johnson
M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts.
~ Samuel Rutherford
A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All of this means that our Christian position on drinking must be rooted not merely in the negative effects of drinking on the physio-social aspects of life, but primarily in the positive principles and admonitions regarding drinking given to us by God in His Word. The definition of our Christian position on drinking must begin by listening first to what God has to say about it in His Word, and then to what scientific research tells us regarding the effects of alcohol.
~ Samuele Bacchiocchi
for her dress when you saw it stirred you. And i rejoice. In fact she herself once blamed me Kyprogeneia because i prayed this word: i want
~ Sappho
that twitched constantly at one corner. Although
~ Sara Donati
I have come to prefer the French word jouissance, with its associations of both playfulness (jouer – to play) and joy.
~ Sara Maitland
Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive.
~ Sara Sheridan
How long a time lies in one little word?
~ William Shakespeare
It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.
~ Oswald Chambers
The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.
~ Stella Benson
Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.
~ Vivienne Westwood
One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.
~ Zig Ziglar
IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.
~ Emily Dickinson
Every time I open my Bible I will read it as the Word of 'God, that cannot lie;' and when I get a promise or a threatening, I will either rejoice or tremble because I know that these stand fast.
~ Charles Spurgeon
when Flash started to speak about love the word floated in the same sort of way, only closer in and brighter and with far more mystery, but also with the smell of eggs, and other men, and beer.
~ Marianne Wiggins
After a while she said, If you make a sound it's just a sound, unless it belongs to a language, and then it's a word. It means something. It can't not mean something.
~ Marilynne Robinson
The word preacher comes from an old French word, predicateur, which means prophet. And what is the purpose of a prophet except to find meaning in trouble?
~ Marilynne Robinson
Again, all any heart has ever said, and just as the word is said the moment is gone, so there is not even any sort of promise in it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Don Corleone had promised his godson he would get the part and Don Corleone had never, to Hagen's knowledge, broken his word in such matters.
~ Mario Puzo