Quotes About Verb

The mindless repetition of the word spam inspired late-1980s hackers to use it as a verb for flooding newsgroups with identical messages, and a decade later it spread from their subculture to the populace at large.

When we agglomerate events through the wide-angle lens of history, which sees only the acts of influential leaders, a causative verb will cut the chain at the link immediately connected to the outcome.

At his trial, Guiteau repeatedly said, "The doctors killed him; I just shot him." The jury was unpersuaded, and in 1882 Guiteau was hanged—another man whose fate hinged on the semantics of a verb.

Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action.

Vernunft (reason) is traced back to its origin in the verb vernehmen (to perceive, to hear)

He has a mind to do. Faith happens when believers believe. This book is about developing an action verb faith that invites the exhilaration of holy participation.

Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. "Biscuits. Are. Good." She cocked her head to the side. "Noun. Verb. Adjective.

One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.

It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.After all Love is a Verb, it must be demonstrated genuinely.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

La pintura es otra cosa que un producto visual —dijo Etienne—. Yo pinto con todo el cuerpo, en ese sentido no soy tan diferente de tu Cervantes o tu Tirso de no sé cuánto. Lo que me revienta es la manía de las explicaciones, el Logos entendido exclusivamente como verbo.

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.

I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb

The medieval Dominican theologian Thomas Aquinas, who greatly influenced Eckhart and all theologians of the era, made the distinction between God as a verb (esse: to be) and the created universe as a noun (ens: being). Commenting on Aquinas, Paul Philibert, OP, says, "God is not a static reality on a shelf. God is active everywhere in the sense that wherever anything exists, God's is the present, active force of its existence.

The Greek word epos means simply "word" or "story" or "song." It is related to a verb meaning "to say" or "to tell," which is used (in a form with a prefix) in the first line of the poem. The narrator commands the Muse, "Tell me": enn-epe. An epic poem is, at its root, simply a tale that is told.

In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage.

In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage. As with words, so with sentences.

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Love is a noun as well as a verb, a treacherous construct.

Love is not a verb. Love is a noun. Love's activity is people breathing, cells dividing, a dove taking a flight. This grammar of life not all can see.

In software development, "perfect" is a verb, not an adjective. There is no perfect process. There is no perfect design. There are no perfect stories. You can, however, perfect your process, your design, and your stories.