Word Quotes

As soon as I hear the word 'competition' I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.

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

I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before.

Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for.

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

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.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.

But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.