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I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.

Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.

Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step ...

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A word and everything is saved.A word and all is lost.

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

Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when ...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Nothing is impossible, the world it's self says I'm possible!

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Words are feminine deeds are masculine.

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and oft...

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

Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?Ford: We're safe.Arthur: Oh good.Fo...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

Every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies most poeple who live there. If you cou...

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More than the painting you see or the music you hear, the words you read become in the very act of r...

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Frederick BuechnerWishful Thinking: A Theological ABC

In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every wor...

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Our words have wings but fly not where we would.

When I learn the meaning of a word, I know the word; but when I say to myself, 'I know the word,' th...

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Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will...

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We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron.

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George R. R. MartinA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead o...

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A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Words of affection howsoe'er expressed The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are the s...

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Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't te...

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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intell...

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Failure is a word unknown to me.

Very Like a WhaleOne thing that literature would be greatly the better forWould be a more restricted...

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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. ...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and...

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Every man of courage is a man of his word.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves...

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Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that t...

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Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word t...

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Music is love in search of a word.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls shor...

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

What's another word for Thesaurus?

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spentIf the unheard, unspokenWord is unspoken, unhear...

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A word to the wise is sufficient.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a wea...

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The change of the word does not alter the matter

A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean w...

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He utters empty words he utters sound without mind.

You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with...

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William S. BurroughsThe Electronic Revolution

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.