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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. Simone de Beauvoir
Love Cause Word Sense Sexes Both Divide Misunderstandings Same Them Means Serious
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. Sophocles
Man Fear Word No Fear Feels Does Frighten Acting Who
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. Stella Adler
Life Truth Theatre People Word Situation See Seeing About Come Greeks Place Social Means
After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could. Theodore Bikel
Word Few Given Could Written Written Word Advent Masses Read Permitted Were After Who Sermons
'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. Tommy Lasorda
Failure You Word Pressure Think Thinking Our Vocabulary Because Misused Start Started
I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife. Tommy Lasorda
Word Wife Daughter Else One Word Never Front Anybody Granddaughter Used Profanity
The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that. Trevor Noah
Nature People Simple Comedy Word First Think Bonus Laugh Relevant Laughing Some About Purpose Comedians Make Issues Very Want Anything Them Deeper Socially
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. W. S. Merwin
You Word Joke Lost One Word Poetry Wrong Like Making End Get Whole Thing
I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother - what is he? The man who keeps back the hire of his laborers by fraud - what is he? William Lloyd Garrison
Man Word Language Back Charge Fraud Find Brother Able Admit He Identify Makes Am Hire Perpetrator Been His Laborers Accused Hard Who Using Describe Villainy Keeps Soft
Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Today Word Relatively Only Countries Nominal Sovereign Sovereignty Any Often Meaning Really Used Specific Number
Become that rare person where people know that your word is your bond and you're going to do exactly what you say you're going to do. John W. Rogers, Jr.
You People Word Rare Become Say Exactly Exactly What Know Person Going Where Your Bond
The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity. John Boyle O'Reilly
Word Right Word Rarity Spoken Precious Right
The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever. Al Pacino
Life Truth Good You Truth Is Word Whatever Bath Our Some Know Times Warm Need
The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself. Alan Moore
Yourself People Word Responsibility Think Chaos Anarchy Kind About Mentioned Leaders Taking Most Contrary Personal Personal Responsibility Which Really Roots Imagine
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. Alan Rickman
Me Word Active More Passive Than Maverick Which Appeals
When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. Albert Brooks
Word First Thong Obituary Up Die Screwed Screwed-Up Sentence Appears Second
At ev'ry word a reputation dies. Alexander Pope
Word Reputation Dies
When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well. Angela Duckworth
Teacher You People Wonderful Word Drive Awesome Think Something Classroom Environment Wrong Well Terrific Encouraged Squashed Often Where Soccer Team
I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it. Anne Lamott
Love People Writing Words Impeachment Word First Cute Progressive Hesitates Drawn Run Divine Divine Love Almost Know Piece Makes Any Screaming Little Sentence Use Many Lives
You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation - to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians. Ariel Sharon
You Word Believe Like Terrible Terrible Thing Occupation Israel Hold Happening Cannot Thing Million Palestinians
The word of man is the most durable of all material. Arthur Schopenhauer
Man Word Most Material Durable
I jokingly refer to the word 'gourmet' as the 'g' word. Arthur Schwartz
Word Gourmet Refer
Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing. Barbara Stanwyck
Love Word Job Too Felt Always Doing Privileged Pompous Paid Career
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken. Barry White
Time Freedom Me Word Every Spoken Boy America Meant Believed
I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done. Billy Collins
Change Try Word Back Later Rip Some Minutes Poem Weeks Write Over Go Line Revise Very Get Sitting Tinker Done Just Much Forty Reason Whole Twenty Fast Thing Two
When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke. Brian P. Cleary
Word Joke Thinking Punch Punch Line Kid Out Finding Some Because Understand Real Line Vested Vested Interest Going Interest Mean Means Things Two
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