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Quotes About Word

And at once he went on with his burden, as though afraid that he might already have said too much in this country where the past was sharp splinters embedded in men's minds and an ill-judged word a false step in the dark.
~ Richard Adams
Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'.
~ Richard Dawkins
In Natchez, you only use the word home if it's antebellum," said Doug. "If your house was built after the Civil War, it's trashy to call it a home.
~ Richard Grant
Some, indeed, referred to Bismarck's creation as the 'Second Reich'. The use of the word implied, too, that where the First Reich had failed, in the face of French aggression, the Second had succeeded.
~ Richard J. Evans
The few psychiatrists I respect always talk about people being mad. Use the short, simple, true words... Mad has the right sound to it. It's an ordinary word, a word which tells us how lunacy might come and call like a delivery van.
~ Julian Barnes
My God!" I said. "It's the Platonic cathouse." "Not exactly the word I'd choose under the circumstances," said
~ Julie Smith
As Solomon ben Jehiel (1510–74), known as Maharshal, explained, scripture was the Word of God, so that even if the heavens and the oceans were ink, they would not suffice to expound a single passage of scripture, record all the doubts arising from it, and the many new ideas that it inspired.
~ Karen Armstrong
God's Word is both powerful and practical.
~ Karen Ehman
No woman worth her salt would listen to a proposal without the word 'love' in it.
~ Karen Hawkins
The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable
~ Karen Joy Fowler
And knowing my luck Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that'll be the Engineer sign for "Your mom's a skank.
~ Karen Traviss
And he explained that there was no Mandalorian word for "hero." It was only not being one that had its own word: Hut'uun.
~ Karen Traviss
the gate as just another gate. She reminded
~ Karin Slaughter
First you must have the images. Then come the words." —Robert James Waller. Images. I had seen that word before—at least six times before on my annual reading sojourn to the sheriff's office. The word was connected to a deed and the deed was connected to an act and that act had been committed by a man and that man, I now understood, was connected to you.
~ Karin Slaughter
the Church should be the place where a word reverberates right into the world.
~ Karl Barth
The Word ought to be exposed in the words
~ Karl Barth
Religion may be a private affair, but the woik and word of God are the reconciliation of the world with God, as it was performed in Jesus Christ.
~ Karl Barth
the concrete actuality of God's revelation in Word and Act.
~ Karl Barth
A block of blood should not have the word cake after it...they might as well say shite gateau
~ Karl Pilkington
Slattern! What a wonderful new word. 'Slattern,' I murmur appreciatively to Patricia. 'Yes, slattern,' Bunty says firmly. 'That's what she is.' 'Not a slut like you then?' Patricia says very quietly. Loud enough to be heard, but too quiet to be believed.
~ Kate Atkinson
Before the beginning is the void and the void belongs in neither time nor space and is therefore beyond our imagination. Nothing will come of nothing unless it's the beginning of the world. This is how it begins, with the word and the word is life. The void is transformed by a gigantic firecracker allowing time to dawn and imagination to begin.
~ Kate Atkinson
It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.
~ John Hughlings Jackson
The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford