Quotes with by-word

Quotes 101 till 120 of 406.

  • Fran Lebowitz Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Willa Cather Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox Give us that grand word ''woman'' once again, and let's have done with ''lady''; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • R. A. Torrey God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
    R. A. Torrey
    American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer (1856 - 1928)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Bobby Bowden He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Joseph Conrad He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Earl Rochester Here lies our Sovereign Lord, the King whose word no man relies on: He never said a foolish thing nor ever did a wise one.
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  • Graham Greene Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Lydia M. Child Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Charles Dickens 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.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Oscar Wilde How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Boris Becker How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Kofi Annan However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • James Thurber I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bertrand Russell I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Charles Dickens I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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