Verb Quotes

“I want to see the thirst
inside the syllables
I want to touch the fire
in the sound:
I want to feel the darkness
of the cry. I want
words as rough
as virgin rocks.” - Verb.”
― Pablo Neruda

“This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate… the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug, to kiss… this is the time to experience, participate and live your life as a verb.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart with my deeds. My endless love is expressed with more than just my words; my love is lived as a verb.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.”
― Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative

“and so, as you love me, and he loves me, and I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb, I send you simply his 'love' instead.”
― Bram Stoker

“The word "seek" is a verb. Are you treating it as such in your life? If you seek change, success, or love, DO it - BE it!”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Respect the verbs in your life.
Life is a verb. Live is a verb.
Live Life. Action verbs
bring life to writing.
Love is a verb. Be is a verb.
Be in Love
Believe, love, give,
receive,tag,
Believing in love,
giving love, receiving love,
love tag(you are it)
dance, prance, pounce,
smile, try,
trying to smile,
dancing and prancing,
pounce!
laugh, do, go, grow, feel, touch,
touching, feeling, growing, doing,
going, laughing,
sing, walk, run, cook, look,
see, eat, meet, greet, smell,
hear,
look and see the cooking,
singing and then walking
into the kitchen to eat,
eating the yummy food.
running to see,
seeing the food,
meeting and greeting others;
smelling the cooking,
hearing the laughter;
seeing the runners;
touching the icing.
licking the icing. tasting
the licking of the spoon
discover, realize, live,
respect.
discover life, realizing truth,
living, respecting everyone
under the sun,
even all the universe
love and respect all”
― Jerriann Wayahowl Law

“In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Life is like a little book written
With a whole lot of surprise.
Spell a word that doesn´t fit in
And that´s a spell in desguise.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Witches Of Avignon

“What happened when the Verb asked the noun to conjugate? She said "no-no!", forgot the "o" and decided to become a nun!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes

“Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“We are not nouns; we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun”
― Stephen Fry

“Wisdom that is not acted upon is just philosophy... but when lived as a verb, wisdom will be the foundation of your success.”
― Steve Maraboli

“And by knowing what we fear, don't we know what we care about, how we are measuring our worth, what success looks like?" I asked. So isn't fear helpful, then?”
― Patti Digh

“The real greatness tends to be a verb much more than an adjective, and it’s a duty preceding been an honour.”
― عمار موسى, رحلة إلى ما وراء القمة

“They’re gonna chick you, Jurker! Do you want to get chicked?” (Dusty had coined the term when he was in high school. It’s now part of the ultra-running lexicon).”
― Scott Jurek, Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“És tan fàcil com canviar un verb; ell sap bé que el llenguatge té el poder de transformar la realitat o, si més no, d'alterar-la encara que sigui momentàniament.”
― Marta Orriols, Dolça introducció al caos

“If the one word that you use to describe your life is a noun, maybe you should replace it with a verb. And once you’ve done that, maybe should write a sentence that outlines how you intend use your verb to help people who have settled for nouns.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you were to use one word to describe your life, would it be a noun or a verb?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Brahma is all; a noun, a pronoun, a verb, an adjective, a single word, a full sentence; the crux of life, the whole grammar of life.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“Brahma is a verb as it’s an action in itself. E.g. Brahmakrit (Praying).”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice.”
― Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

“We tediously parse the verb all the while ignoring the action demanded of us by the verb.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“For this reason the verb, the word of action, is the most important and most developed part of speech.”
― William Gates, Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex

“I'd been treating love like a thing, an achievement, a trophy to be and hung around my neck. People talk about it that way sometimes. My love for you is undying. He never knew my love. It is an error of grammar to make love a noun. It is not a thing you can have. Love—like doubt or hate—is a verb. It has no fixity. Like song, it's truth is in its unfolding. Language is filled with these illusions. A fist, an embrace, A blow—they are actions, not things. Action takes time, and time is the tool of my god.”
― Brian Staveley, Skullsworn