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Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.
Sep 30, 2025
We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.
People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.
It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.
Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.
Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.
If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.
You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable two people can do in bed together is R-E-A-D.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.
Survival is a four letter word.
The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk.
I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.
Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word. It will be a three-letter word: fun.
Work is a four-letter word.
Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.
Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is!
Love is the most powerful four letter word.
Fear is only a four letter word.
Did that hurt? On your lip?" "Not too much. I said a few choice four-letter words, though.
My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'.
Life is a four-letter word.
They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.
You say love is just a four letter word.
To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.
Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the ante, to provide stronger and stronger stimulants. Or try to provide them, since both the manner, the naming of parts and the few inexpressive four-letter words, and the matter, are narrowly limited.
Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
The thing with that word "establishment" is a four-letter word in the 2016 politics, so toxic, so pejorative that pretty much no one wants to be associated with it.
I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.
All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!
The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.
A single word that can be offensive to someone is a horrible thing for anyone who has iman. In other words, filthy language out of your mouth and faith inside your heart cannot coexist. You cannot have iman in your heart and ugly words come out of your mouth. If you have no control over whatever four letter words you keep using every time you get frustrated, there's a spiritual problem, it's not just a habit problem. How can you use a terrible word for anyone who has iman?
Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.
I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
Just another four-letter word.
Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.
As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.
Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing.
I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it.
The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface. Love.
Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war in Iraq, he didn't expect President Bush to 'f--- it up as badly as he did.' Here's some breaking news, tomorrow former Vice President Al Gore expected to endorse Howard Dean as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States - and you thought John Kerry was using four letter words before! Actually, to John Kerry, Dean is a four letter word.
My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favorite five letter word is never because it insists on contradicting the promise. My favorite four letter word is once because it says it happened then. My favorite three letter word is yes because I’m just now learning to say it to my heart. My favorite two letter word is if because it makes all things possible like this: If not always If not never Then once. Yes.
If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.