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Quotes About Word

Nonrefundable. It was a good, solid word, one you couldn't chew, one that only dissolved after sucking slowly.
~ Shannon Hale
If we love God with all of our heart, mind, and strength, then we will spend all of our time letting his love, Word, and presence build our character in order to protect and advance the relationship.
~ Shawn Bolz
For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.
~ Jacques Ellul
Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.
~ Mitt Romney
Your dog has not lost any time in catching up on his beauty sleep." "Just do not utter any word that begins with w," she said, "especially with the letters a-l-k attached. You would soon discover how deeply asleep he is.
~ Mary Balogh
In the beginning, Scripture taught, there was the Word, and Danny would come to believe that the two great gifts his God had given to the species He loved were time, which divides experience, and language, which binds the past to the future.
~ Mary Doria Russell
The Spanish for 'vacuum' is aspiradora.
~ Mary Roach
Si nuestros instintos se limitaran al hambre, la sed y el deseo, seríamos casi libres. Pero nos conmueve cada viento que sopla, cada palabra al azar, cada imagen que esa misma palabra nos evoca
~ Mary Shelley
Alas! why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings. If out impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might nearly be free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows, and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The word "deterrence" comes from the language of crime prevention, and its use reinforces the view of asylum seekers as criminals.
~ Masha Gessen
Sex is just a word. Love is a sentence
~ Matt Fraction
She smiled. How...cute. She chose the word rather like a candy, which she bit.
~ Matthew Skelton
Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect. A year passes and you know you feel differently, but you're not sure what or why or how, so your mind casts back for something that might give that difference shape: a word, a glance, a touch.
~ Barack Obama
Her name, he says like the Lord's taken in vain. Sometimes he says Mexico, and the word has nothing in it at all. A wall with no colors painted on it.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
On the verbal portion I missed four questions, all having to do with choosing a word in a series that doesn't belong. I have always had trouble with that line of questioning. Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Immortality is a meaningless word unless invulnerability goes with it.
~ Barry Hughart
If we make our own meanings, God will oblige us to answer our own questions: He will leave us in the void without the comfort of his word.
~ Barry Unsworth
The word synoptic means "seen together":
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Christ "reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power" (1:3).
~ Bart D. Ehrman
In the Hebrew language, the word for "anointed one" is mashiach, from which we get our word messiah. In Greek, the language of the New Testament, the translation of mashiach is christos, whence we get our word Christ.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
The English word "Almighty" is a bit weak for the Greek term used here: Pantokrator, a rare word, or at least it was before the book of Revelation.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Joy—damn, but that's a cheerful little word.
~ Stephen King
The word itself, not found in the Bible, commemorates Hel, the fierce Norse goddess who reigned over the netherworld.
~ Stephen L. Harris
The dative is a pair of constructions
~ Steven Pinker