Quotes 61 till 80 of 407.
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Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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Carve every word before you let it fall.
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Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) -
Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
"Q&A with Carlos Ghosn" published in CNN website on December 7, 2006. -
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand.
Death in the Afternoon (1932) ch. 7 -
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!
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Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
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Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.'
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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness - It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays
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