Quotes About Word

According to Radical Pragmatics, a permanently existing conceptual structure underlying the meaning of a word is also as mythical as the Jack of Spades, because people can use a word to mean almost anything, depending on the context.

Polysemy refers to a word's having a number of distinct but related senses, and is different from two other ways in which a sound can have multiple meanings.

Naming a child is the only opportunity that most people get to anoint an entity in the world with a word of their choosing.

The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.

The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.

Love is a word that some entertain. If you find it you have won the game.

Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.

I'm just a big homebody and love word games like Scrabble and Boggle.

Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

I was only a folk singer for about two years…. By that time, it wasn't really folk music anymore. It was some new American phenomenon. Later, they called it singer/songwriters. Or art songs, which I liked best. Some people get nervous about that word. Art. They think it's a pretentious word from the giddyap. To me, … the word art has never lost its vitality.

To hold the no excuse for physical punishment theory is also (fifth) to assume that the word no can be effectively uttered to another person in the absence of the threat of punishment.

The Word that produces order from chaos sacrifices everything, even itself, to God. That single sentence, wise beyond comprehension, sums up Christianity.

become linked together in this way is referred to as setting an anchor. The most common state that salespeople will try to set an anchor for is a state of absolute certainty, and the most common anchor they'll choose to try to link it to is a combination of shouting the word "yes" and simultaneously clapping their hands.

The union of the Word and Mind produces that mystery which is called life...Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for their-in lies the secret of mortality.

The unsound convert is willingly ignorant, loves not to come to the light. He is willing to keep such or such a sin, and therefore is loathed to know it to be a sin, and will not let in the light at that window. Now, the gracious heart is willing to know the whole latitude and compass of his Maker's law. He receives with all acceptation the Word which convinceth him of any duty that he knew not, or minded not before, or which discovereth any sin that lay hid before.

There will be a relationship between the punishment and change. As their bodies burn, a change will take place in their spirit forever and ever; for before the Lord of spirits none shall utter an idle word.

There is a weird power in a spoken word…. And a word carries far—very far—deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

The difference between the word fiend and friend is merely one letter. I could easily be the latter. If you knew me better...

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

The word "Yankee" itself, I was informed, came from that simplest of Dutch names - Jan.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

I'll never call you 'girl' again," Argus said to me. "A woman twice your age would envy your cunning!" "If I were still 'Glaucus,' you'd say I was smart or clever, not cunning," I chided him. "Pfff! What does one little word matter?" "So you won't mind if I call the Argo a ferryboat?" I replied sweetly.

You must be there with me, Atalanta. I wouldn't be able to say a word if I was alone with him. And we must see him secretly. If my father knew, he'd lock me up again." Again? I wanted to ask what she meant, but with Medea, perhaps there were some riddles better left unanswered.