42 Quotes About Verbs

  • Author Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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    It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb and said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.

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  • Author John Green
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    The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.

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  • Author Cynthia Heimel
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    A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.

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  • Author Kathleen Hanna
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    Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

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  • Author Clive James
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    Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

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