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Word Quotes (page 110)

DESIREE: Don't forget, Madame, that love is a perpetual juggling of three balls. Their names are heart, word and sex. How easily these three balls can be juggled, and how easily one of them can be dropped. Ingmar Bergman
Horace quote: "What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once..."
What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled. Horace
Walter Scott quote: "No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's..."
No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it. Walter Scott
If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be "To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one's own writings in translation. Vladimir Nabokov
Joan Didion quote: "Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to..."
Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go. Joan Didion
He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is. Albert Schweitzer
Napolean Hill quote: "Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible."
Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible. Napolean Hill
Virginia Woolf quote: "I am made and remade continually. Different people draw..."
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. Virginia Woolf
For fairness and loyalty, however important to the head, were issues that could seldom be squared in the human heart, at the deepest depths of which lay the mystery of affection, of love, which you either felt or you didn't, pure as instinct, which seized you, not the other way around, making a mockery of words like "should" and "ought". The human heart, where compromise could not be struck, not ever. Where transgressions exacted a terrible price. Where tangled black limbs fell. Where the... Richard Russo
Charles Bukowski quote: "a good bookcan make an almostimpossibleexistence, liveable(..."
a good bookcan make an almostimpossibleexistence, liveable( from 'the luck of the word' ) Charles Bukowski
Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the word and would raise mean's souls to joy. Jack Kerouac
Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you! Georgette Heyer
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?"
What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example? Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague, amusing shapes and are then swallowed up: I promptly forget them. Jean-Paul Sartre
It was not the man’s brain that was speaking it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words but it was not speech in true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness like the quacking of a duck. George Orwell

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