Quotes with by-word

Quotes 341 till 360 of 406.

  • Derek Jarman These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word ''queer'' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • Barney Ross They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy This is the word tightrope. Now imagine
    a man, inching across it in the space
    between our thoughts. He holds our breath. There is no word net. You want him to fall, don't you?
    I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
    The word applause is written all over him.
    Standing Female Nude (1985)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Sallust Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Ben Carson Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Cary Fowler To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • W. H. Auden To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Leo Buscaglia Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Barbara Amiel Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Dorothy Day Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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  • Confucius Tsze-Kung asked, saying, is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?'' The Master said, ''Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud Usually when he forgot words he would wait for them to seep back into consciousness like fish drawn up to the hungry surface of a stream. He would remember the initial letter of the forgotten word or sense sounds in it; soon the word reappeared in an illumination.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Andy Rooney Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Bob Hope Virus is a Latin word used by doctors to mean 'your guess is as good as mine.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • B. F. Skinner We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word admire then means marvel at.
    Beyond Freedom and Dignity
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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