“ Why indeed must "God" be a noun? Why not a verb — the most active and dynamic of all. ”
- Mary Daly- Copy
“ God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper. ”
- Richard Buckminster Fuller- Copy
“ Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. ”
- Mary Daly- Copy
“ From the German verb tinzelle-literally, to book a turkey into 1,200 theaters and make one's money before word of mouth hits. ”
- Charlie Haas- Copy
“ Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry. ”
- Bill Owens- Copy
“ Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
“ Three words take on their true meaning when we see them as verbs more than nouns: volunteer, love, God. ”
- Sue Vineyard- Copy
“ Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. ”
- Barbara De Angelis- Copy
“ Here is God's purpose — for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. ”
- R. Buckminster Fuller- Copy
“ The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. ”
- Stephen Nachmanovitch- Copy
“ Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
“ The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion. ”
- Douglas Hofstadter- Copy
“ You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two. ”
- Larry McMurtry- Copy
“ Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing our wounds, forgiveness, and service. The soul grows well when giving and receiving love. I nourish my soul daily by loving others and being vulnerable to their love… ”
- Joan Borysenko- Copy
“ Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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