Word of Quotes

"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."
Thomas Jefferson

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
Martin Luther King Jr.

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
Martin Luther King Jr.

"I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here."
Warren Buffet

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
Winston Churchill

"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence."
Benjamin Franklin

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
Mohandas Gandhi

"We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it."
Mohandas Gandhi

"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
William Shakespeare

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
John F. Kennedy

"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings."
John F. Kennedy

"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."
John F. Kennedy

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
Mark Twain

"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
Mark Twain

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."
Mark Twain

"The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word."
Mark Twain

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C.S. Lewis

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."
C.S. Lewis

"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."
Friedrich Nietzsche