Quotes
Quotes about Word
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. -Martin Luther King.
But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. . . . . The flames roll'd on--he would not go Without his Father's word; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once.
The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.
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.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir.
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
"Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.
"Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never stops- at all- .
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent!
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. [Psalm 119:105].
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.
Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear.
