word Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about word.
“Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.”
- Paul Tillich
“Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.”
- Tecumseh
“Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.”
- Elbert Hubbard
“Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”
- Paul Tillich
“Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.”
- Lajos Kossuth
“He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.”
- Sarah Bernhardt
“You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.”
- Jerry Saltz
“It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.”
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
“In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.”
- Peter Tosh