Catchword Quotes & Sayings

A gospel which contains judgement as a prominent strand, as does the New Testament gospel, is relevant to men and women everywhere and in every age and culture. It does not need indigenization,57 so popular a catchword today, but requires only clarity of language and faithfulness in proclamation. The sense of right and wrong is universal in the human race and so is the knowledge that we fall below our own standards of what is right, and that this entails death. — Broughton Knox

You can't count on friends. They will always let you down. — Rick Riordan

He bit his lip to keep from screaming like a little girl. I can't believe you were afraid to ride on my bike. You drive this car (a Mini Cooper) around as if a collision with anything bigger than a gnat swarm wouldn't turn it into a rolling coffin. - Tyler to Ellie — Samanthe Beck

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort. — Tibor Fischer

Anytime you announce your dream; two things happen, it's either it motivates you to get it done or the feeling of accomplishment sets in and discourages you from pursuing it — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries. — Frank B. Kellogg

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. — Wendell Willkie

I feel like there's not this black-and-white division between concert hall music and music that bands play in a bar. I don't know if this was ever truly the case, but I don't feel that I need to decide between playing for a sit-down, totally silent audience and playing for a bunch of noisy, drunk people in a bar. What I do with the group is somewhere in between. — Missy Mazzoli

When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs. Is — Og Mandino

The spirit of International Geneva is not only a catchword. It stands for Switzerland's commitment to advance international cooperation and dialogue - and we make every effort to ensure that the dynamics of the Geneva spirit are real. — Didier Burkhalter

Ultimately we have nothing to fear. Jesus loves us, and he invites us to be confident in that love. As we seek to obey Him, we are not called to assess the risk involved and determine whether or not obedience will be beneficial or safe for us. We are simply called to trust and obey. — Dan Baumann

Marriage breeds its own special brand of loneliness, and it's far more cruel. You miss more, because you've known more. — Melanie Benjamin

Everything about him enveloped her, made her crave exactly this. His possession. In her mind something relaxed; the balance shifted. She welcomed every way he could touch her, the heat from his body, the atoms of his breath. Everything. — Cari Silverwood

I must admit that when I chose the name, 'vitamine,' I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of an amine nature. However, it was necessary for me to choose a name that would sound well and serve as a catchword, since I had already at that time no doubt about the importance and the future popularity of the new field. — Casimir Funk

Democracy is just a false idol - a mere catchword and illusion of inferior classes, visionaries and dying civilizations. — H.P. Lovecraft

As awareness recedes into the deep, as when it falls asleep, everything seemingly ends. All that it takes is a gentle touch to your body; meaning has moved and meaning is again aware, knowing, seeing, and if it is home, meeting and communing. — John De Ruiter

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything. — Agnes Repplier

If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless. — William Graham Sumner

They had supported him ... for freedom's sake, they would have said; meaning as do all men who mouth that catchword, freedom for themselves and their own class. — Margaret Butler

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn. — Marian Wright Edelman

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. — Nikki Giovanni

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more. — Benjamin Cardozo

Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones. — Phyllis McGinley

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things. — Theodore Levitt