Quotes About Verb

Que le verbe se fasse chair est décidément la seule chose qui m'intéresse. Le mystère de l'incarnation n'est pas à mes yeux une affaire de religion mais d'esthétique.

Melt down the fat. Cut the cosmetics and coloratura. The classic rule of good journalism: honor the verb, sacrifice the adjective.

Meil? yra ne daiktavardis, o veiksmažodis.

J'ai la foi. Cette foi n'a pas d'objet. Cela ne signifie pas que je ne crois en rien. Croire n'est beau qu'au sens absolu du verbe. La foi est une attitude et non un contrat. Il n'y a pas de cases à cocher.

If God is not mad, as Fort claimed, then maybe God is, as Buckminster Fuller once wrote, not a noun but a verb. That is, God is what religious people do, as, in some models, an electron is an operation performed by people (physicists) — God as the act of praying, the energy raised

Emotion is far more verb than noun, being not some entity or thing we can get out of our system but a vital process always in some degree of flux.

Some languages, unlike the Indo-European ones, do not separate subject and verb so that an action is never seen as distinct from the actor.

evident in every small act of kindness. It was love as a verb, as Rachel used to say. Love that made me more patient, more loyal, and stronger. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo-filled past.

Love can be a noun or a verb, she said.

Modern western man has some basic misconceptions about the nature of happiness. The origin of the word is instructive: happiness stems from the root verb to happen, which implies that our happiness is what happens.

Don't hide side effects with a name. Don't use a simple verb to describe a function that does more than just that simple action.

Carol's life had been so incomplete: a verb without an object

Whatever language Death speaks is not ours; and most of us spend no time acquiring the complex grammar, in which every verb is irregular and only the past tense obtains, until it is too late

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

According to Bauer, the oldest form of the Semitic verb is the imperfect, which does not indicate 'subjective' or 'objective' time but rather 'every possible moment', since it is completely atemporal.

In another message he wrote, "I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

There is no virtue or vice in a transitive verb, everything depends on the direct object. 'I LOVE' could be virtuous or not - you could love ice cream, Jesus, child porn, my country, hurting people, the lust of the flesh. Love is not an automatic virtue. Hatred is not an automatic vice. What's the direct object? from Debate In The Age Of The Glitter-Bomb in The City, Fall 2013.

A sentence has a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought. However,

phrases—a group of words that have no subject-verb combination and usually act as a modifier.

the word translated "justice" and "righteousness" is the same word in Hebrew and in Greek. The root of the word becomes, in both Testaments, both a noun and a verb, so that "justice" or "judgment" is the same thing as "righteousness" or "rectification" (making right).

A bay is a noun only if water is dead. When bay is a noun, it is defined by humans, trapped between its shores and contained by the word. But the verb wiikwegamaa—to be a bay—releases the water from bondage and lets it live.

Heaven. Now there's a thought. Nothing has ever been able, ultimately, to convince me we live anywhere else. And that heaven, more a verb than a noun, more a condition than a place, is about leading with the heart in whatever broken or ragged state it's in, stumbling forward in faith until, from time to time, we miraculously find our way.

In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to it's own current.