Pastoral Resources

They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word 'industry' is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.