Zitat des Tages über Wort / Word:
You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.
I hate the word wholesome.
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.
'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.
It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
I have always abhorred the word 'racism.' I never use it.
Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.
I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.
People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'
Words derive their power from the original word.
I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.
I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.
Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
One of O'Reilly's advantages is that we have a network of thousands of user groups to whom we give free books, to whom we advertise our products, and they spread the word. If you don't have that database, it's hard to get the attention of the market.
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
That is a long word: forever!
Conservation is now a dead word.
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.
Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.
The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.
We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.
The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.
I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.
I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.
Any debut novel is usually a case of spitting into the wind - or, just maybe, casting your bread upon the waters. Without an established audience in place, first-time authors have to hope for resonant word of mouth and a receptive reviewer or three.
Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
You can't pick up a business magazine ever without seeing the word 'collaborate' splashed all over it. I think people are probably feeling assaulted by the need to always be on and always be interacting.
