1894 Word Quotes for You to Enjoy

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. Henry IV of England

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. J. G. Ballard

Future Soul Fear Word Nothing Sum Everything Would One Word Boring About Vast Exciting New Up Going Just Happen Happened Suburb Again Conforming Interesting Ever

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis. Jacques Ellul

Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which often He does not, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man. What this means in practical terms is that many of our questions - especially those that begin with the word 'why' - will have to remain unanswered for the time being. James Dobson

Time Man Word Will Our Unless Those Unanswered Remain Purposes He Mortal Clearly Reach Beyond Terms Practical Himself Does Lord Motivation His Questions Begin Often Being Which Explain Us Means Chooses Many Why

My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked 'Jasper who?' I just said 'Carrott' - but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word. Jasper Carrott

Old Word Local Nine Later Out Some No Idea Someone Stuck Davis Football Idea Name Particular Said Got Real Came Years Real Name Just While Bob Asked Reason Who Why Playing

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word. Jesse Williams

Integrity Word Honorable Person Being Storytelling Your Based

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love You Creative Fear Word Sense Guided Something Spontaneously Forced Without Controlled Being Which Naturally Original Initiative

When things are going bad, don't get all bummed out. Don't get startled; don't get frustrated. If you can say the word 'good,' guess what? It means you're still alive. It means you're still breathing. Jocko Willink

Good You Word Guess Say Alive Out Bad Still Bummed Get Going Frustrated Breathing Means Things Startled

'Compromise' isn't supposed to be a dirty word. It is, in fact, how representative democracy works. Joe Kennedy III

Democracy Word Compromise Fact Dirty Supposed How Representative In Fact Works

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. John Drinkwater

Word Value Circumstance Poetry Imperfect External

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living. John Glenn

Word Made Living More Up Legacy Not Interested Interested

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves. John Jewel

God Word Mind Ourselves Know Us

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. John Stuart Mill

Word Wife Sense Same Full Slave

I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne. John Wayne

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor. Jon Meacham

Politics Generation Hate Cause Word Progressives Our Once About Dirty Cleaner Put Talk Cry Fairer Make Safer Democrats How Quick Fervor America Republicans Them Cutting Regulation Regulations Evangelical Even Now

Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.' Jonathan Kozol

Political Word Black Three Half Become White Our Synonym Kids Diverse Segregated Schools Call Hispanic Maybe Refuses Establishment Which Asians Means Use Two

'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. Karl Rove

Constitution Word Judiciary Whatever Liberal Latest Backlash Would Clay Generate Empathy Voter Policy Pass Courts Malleable Branch Expansive Did Legislative Legislative Branch Represents Want Form Which Justices Create Molded View Activism Code Treating

While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. Likewise, our future full-size evangelistic Noah's Ark will honor the Bible as God's word and not treat it as a pagan fable. Ken Ham

All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world. Kenneth R. Miller

Nature Religion Natural World Word Become Too Our Those Frankly Promoting Identified Often Place View Natural World

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That's how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it's a release, for lack of a better word. Kevin Hart

Mom Better Comedy Problems Word Fans Honestly Say Release Laugh Battles About Give Weight Talk Talking Deal Got How Passing Chest Off Personal Lack After Biggest Therapy Away

As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids. Kristian Bush

Hope Word Thought First Saw Way Kids Tell Totally Soon Arm Couple Couple Of Years Ago Gosh Got Years Years Ago Left End Get Tattoo Oh Tattoos Story Dots Your Each

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing. Kurt Loder

Music News Knowledge Word Important Think Television Adjunct More Rely No-One Written Written Word Most Most Important Thing Important Thing Still Going Just The Most Important Either Which Should Thing

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! Lauren Bacall

You Word Liberal Total Only Fair Know Democrat

'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. Louisa May Alcott

Word Stay Vocabulary Charming Friend

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