Quotes with by-word

Quotes 161 till 180 of 406.

  • Camillo di Cavour In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.
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  • Alfred Marshall In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
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  • Alan Perlis In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
    Alan Perlis
    American computer scientist and professor (1922 - 1990)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Carl Sagan In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 18 (p. 313)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bette Davis In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You want a great role to play, but the whole - the whole - must be good. It'll never succeed if it's just the role you like.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Henry Miller In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bertrand Russell In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word ''experience'' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Horace In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Benjamin Cohen Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.
    Benjamin Cohen
    American economist (1937 - )
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  • Robert Browning Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Bruce McCulloch Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Hilaire Belloc Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Cameron Sinclair It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Winston Churchill It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Clinton It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
    Supreme Court 1998
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • James Whitcomb Riley It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
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