Word Quotes

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before.

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

Americans use the word 'dream' as often as psychoanalysts do.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

Words derive their power from the original word.

Every creature is a word of God.

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

The word must is not to be used to princes.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

We've always had to worry about the electrical grid and nuclear facilities, and they remain a concern; but cyber-terrorism, you know, which is a word that you hear more and more, I think is a reality.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God.

'Nuclear' is nothing but trouble. Do you say 'new-clear' or do you say 'nuke-you-ler'? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don't have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin' out loud.

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

It basically comes down to that word: Love. I guess that's what it's all about.

I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.

I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

I'm surprised at people who have a passion for Mitt Romney, because he's taken every position there is. I would cast this guy as the president in a heartbeat... but I just cannot believe a word he says.

The military never uses a full word if they can create an abbreviation.

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

A word once uttered can never be recalled.