Quotes about wording
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“To abandon your duty is not courageous. Below the courageous, there is nothing. Those are the previous Hokage's words.”

Hatake Kakashi book Naruto

Source: To Obito, In Kakashi Gaiden

Courage

“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath. Or when a dark mood comes upon you and you start getting into a negative mind-pattern and thinking how dreadful your life is, your thinking has become aligned with the pain-body, and you have become unconscious and vulnerable to the pain-body's attack. "Unconscious," the way that I use the word here, means to be identified with some mental or emotional pattern. It implies a complete absence of the watcher.”

Eckhart Tolle book The Power of Now

Source: The Power of Now (1997), p. 29-30

Life, Pain, Way, Mood

“Always be mindful, one has complete authority over psyche, words, and actions. Deliberative judgment of these three things, determine your station in life.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1982

Life

“It is always improper to intentionally offend anyone; and if someone is offended by your actions or words, they are not necessarily right.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1981

“No teaching foresaw the future with such precision as Buddhism. Parallel with reverence to the Buddha, Buddhism develops the veneration of Bodhisattvas—future Buddhas. According to the tradition, Gotama, before reaching the state of Buddha, had been a Bodhisattva for many centuries. The word, Bodhisattva, comprises two concepts: Bodhi—enlightenment or awakening, and Sattva—the essence. Who are these Boddhisattvas? The disciples of Buddhas, who voluntarily have renounced their personal liberation and, following the example of their Teacher, have entered upon a long, weary thorny path of help to humanity. Such Bodhisattvas appear on earth in the midst of the most varying conditions of life. Physically indistinguishable in any way from the rest of humanity, they differ completely in their psychology, constantly being the heralds of the principle of the common welfare.”

Helena Roerich (1879–1955) Russian philosopher

Source: Foundations of Buddhism (1930)

Life, Way, Teachers, Appearance

“Listen to the words people say in their lyrics, and tell me, if that's some real shit, if that's real to you, you know what I mean. Listen to what they sayin', don't just bob your head to the beat, peep the game, and listen to what Im saying. Hold us accountable for it.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

People, Game

“Say, O brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.”

Bahá'u'lláh book The Hidden Words

The Hidden Words

“What the exploiter needs is that the will and intelligence of the victim be disengaged from the projects of resistance and escape but that they not be simply broken or destroyed. Ideally, the dis-integration and mis-integration of the victim should accomplish the detachment of the victim's will and intelligence from the victim’s own interests and their attachment to the interests of the exploiter. This will effect a displacement or dissolution of self-respect and will undermine the victim’s intolerance of coercion. With that, the situation transcends the initial paradigmatic form or structure of coercion; for if people don’t mind doing what you want them to do, then, in a sense, you can’t really be making them do it. In the limiting case, the victim’s will and intelligence are wholly transferred to a full engagement in the pursuit of the dominating person’s interests. The “problem” had been that there were two parties with divergent interests; this sort of solution (which is very elegant, as that word is used in logic) is to erase the conflict by reducing the number of interested parties to one. This radical solution can properly be called “enslavement.””

Marilyn Frye book The Politics of Reality

Source: The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (1983), p. 60

People, Making love, Intelligence, Problem

“Put actions behind your words. Don’t be a talker, be a doer.”

Kevin Hart (1979) American comedian, actor and producer

“A simple strategy that will save you so many headaches: don’t care about winning trivial arguments. Did someone say something you don’t agree with? Smile, nod, and move on to more important things. Life is short. Learning to not care about having the last word will save you so much time.”

James Clear (1986) American author and speaker

Life, Smile, Learning, Time

“[T]here are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

"The Art of Living", interview with journalist Gordon Young first published in 1960 <br class="br">Source: Reprinted in C. G. Jung Speaking, ed. McGuire and Hull, pp. 451-452. link to Internet Archive https://archive.org/stream/MemoriesDreamsReflectionsCarlJung/carlgustavjung-interviewsandencounters-110821120821-phpapp02#page/n237/mode/2up

Life, Happiness, Sadness, Night

“I found abundant “mental sunshine,” which bathed all the gray world suddenly in the clear light of reason and understanding. Word after word, sentence after sentence stabbed into the darkness like thunderclaps and lightningbolts of revelation, tearing and ripping away the cobwebs of more than thirty years of darkness, brilliantly illuminating the mysteries of the heretofore impenetrable murk in a world gone mad.”

George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) American politician, founder of the American Nazi Party

As quoted by George P. Thayer in The Further Shores of Politics: The American Political Fringe Today, 2d ed. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968), p. 27.
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World, Understanding, Tear, Light

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Leadership

“I see without eyes, and I hear without ears. I feel without feeling and taste without tasting. I know neither form nor measure; for without seeing I yet behold an operation so divine that the words I first used, perfection, purity, and the like, seem to me now mere lies in the presence of truth. . . . Nor can I any longer say, “My God, my all.””

Catherine of Genoa (1447–1510) Italian author and nurse

Everything is mine, for all that is God’s seem to be wholly mine. I am mute and lost in God...God so transforms the soul in Him that it knows nothing other than God, and He continues to draw it up into His fiery love until He restores it to that pure state from which it first issued
Source: Life and Doctrine, p. 50

God, Truth, Feeling, Perfection

“When words stop meaning anything, when truth doesn’t matter, when people can just lie with abandon, democracy can’t work.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Speech at political rally on November 2, 2018. Source: Obama rips hecklers: Why are the people who won the last election ‘so mad all the time?' https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/03/obama-rips-hecklers-why-are-people-who-won-last-election-so-mad-all-time/ <br class="br">2018

People, Truth, Lie, Democracy

“The greater Truth is that you are the awareness within which the idea of yourself living a life and having awareness is appearing. In other words, the ‘person’ we take ourselves to be is an idea emerging in consciousness as an expression of consciousness.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Part I

Life, Truth, Idea, Appearance

“The singular intent of America in all its facets is to mix, overrun and exterminate the White race... If you support the aims or the continued existence of the entity known as America, then your treason cannot be calculated in the words of mortals.”

David Lane (white nationalist) (1938–2007) American white supremacist, convicted felon

Revolution by Number

Support

“The reward of putting a smile on a child’s face, who has to deal with so many challenges in life, is just beyond words. It's incredible.”

Kristi Yamaguchi (1971) American figure skater

"Kristi Yamaguchi: My Life After Figure Skating" in ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/kristi-yamaguchi-life-figure-skating/story?id=29556805 (12 March 2015)

Life, Smile

“The word “democracy” is easier said than practised and that is the main factor which can turn our respected world leaders into manipulators.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

World, Democracy

“You are complete as a man or as a woman. In other words, you have been given everything that is required of you to live in this world.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

World

“You can see the beauty in things only after learning the meaning of the word 'beautiful'.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Beauty, Learning

“The dollar bill is above many other currencies. In other words, paper is more valuable than silver and gold.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The full experience of something beautiful or terrifying cannot be expressed in words.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Beauty

“There is no need for words in the world of classical music. Silence speaks louder here.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

World, Music, Silence

“[P]leasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good: pain is in itself an evil; and, indeed, without exception, the only evil; or else the words good and evil have no meaning. And this is alike true of every sort of pain, and of every sort of pleasure.”

Jeremy Bentham book An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Source: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789; 1823), Ch. 10: Of Motives

Pain, Pleasure, Evil

“True is the word of the Lord which declares that no man possessing love for the world can acquire the love of God, nor can any who has communion with the world have communion with God, nor can any who has concern for the world have concern for God.”

Isaac of Nineveh (640–700) Eastern Orthodox saint

Source: The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, p. 428

Love, God, World

“He went on to speak of the manner in which slavery was treated by the Constitution. The word 'slave' is no where used; the supply of slaves was to be prohibited after 1808; they stopped the spread of it in the territories; seven of the states abolished it. He argued very conclusively that it was then regarded as an evil which would eventually be got rid of, and that they desired, once rid of it, to have nothing in the constitution to remind them of it. The Republicans go back to first principles and deal with it as a wrong. Mason, of Va., said openly that the framers of our government were anti-slavery. Hammond of S.C., said 'Washington set this evil example'. Bully Brooks said: 'At the time the Constitution was formed, no one supposed slavery would last till now.'”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

We stick to the policy of our fathers.
1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

Evil, Time

“Clearchus spoke, and his words were few; "Conquerors do not, as a rule, give up their arms."”

Xenophon book Anabasis

Bk. 2, ch. 1.
Anabasis

“It has been said: wherever you go, there you are. In other words: you are here. Always. Is it so hard to accept that?”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 6

“Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 1

World, Nature

“It'll be the ballot or it'll be the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death. And if you're not ready to pay that price don't use the word freedom in your vocabulary.”

Malcolm X The Ballot or the Bullet

Source: The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)

Death, Freedom

“A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and lose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well — in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.”

Mikhail Bakunin book Statism and Anarchy

Source: Statism and Anarchy (1873), "Appendix A"

People, Truth, Lie, Strong

“Do you need more knowledge? Is more information going to save the world, or faster computers, more scientific or intellectual analysis? Is it not wisdom that humanity needs most at this time? But what is wisdom and where is it to be found? Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 1

Wisdom, World, Intelligence, Knowledge

“The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: “All things are intrinsically one.” That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 2

Truth, Feeling, Understanding

“The form of this book can be seen as a revival for the present age of the oldest form of recorded spiritual teachings: the sutras of ancient India. Sutras are powerful pointers to the truth in the form of aphorisms or short sayings, with little conceptual elaboration. The Vedas and Upanishads are the early sacred teachings recorded in the form of sutras, as are the words of the Buddha. The sayings and parables of Jesus, too, when taken out of their narrative context, could be regarded as sutras, as well as the profound teachings contained in the Tao Te Ching, the ancient Chinese book of wisdom. The advantage of the sutra form lies in its brevity...”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), intro

Wisdom, Truth, Books, Age

“A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Introduction

Truth, Sense, Teachers, Help

“Raise your words, not voice.
It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21

Flowers

“I have learned that…
you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.
No matter how much I care, some people just don't care back.
It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
It's not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life that counts.
You can do something in an instant that will give you a heartache for life.
No matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.
You should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
There are people who love you dearly, but just don't know how to show it.
True friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. The same goes for true love.
Just because someone doesnt love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
No matter how good a friend someone is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
No matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
Just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.
We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
You shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.
There are so many ways of falling and staying in love.
No matter how many friends you have, if you are their pillar, you will feel lonely and lost at the times you need them most.
The people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon.
Although the word "love" can have many different meanings, it loses value when overly used.
Love is not for me to keep, but to pass on to the next person I see.
There are people who love you dearly but just don't know how to show it.
Every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love that human touch-holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
I still have a lot to learn……”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Love, Life, Friendship, People

“I know I got a bad reputation
'Walk around, always mad' reputation
'Leave a pretty girl sad' reputation
Start a Fight Club, Brad reputation Close your eyes and let the word paint a thousand pictures
One good girl is worth a thousand bitches
Bound.”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

Bound 2
Lyrics, Yeezus (2013)

Sadness, Girl, Fight, Painting

“My big brother was B.I.G.'s brother
So here's a few words from your kid brother
If you admire somebody you should go ahead tell 'em
People never get the flowers while they can still smell 'em.”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

Big Brother
Lyrics, Graduation (2007)

People, Flowers

“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. Poets are the policemen of language; they are always arresting those old reprobates the words.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

Letter to Ellen O'Leary (3 February 1889)

Sense

“God seems to have disappeared from the horizon, and his word no longer seems a compass guiding our lives, our basic decisions, our human and social relationships.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

2020s, 2022

God, Decision

“SOXX " If you can't fight back just say a word and call it a day " -Abah Sole F. E”

Engr.Abah Sule

Fight

“" Love is the most greatest thing on earth that everlast, love from God to his word, from his words, to a man, from a man to his world. " -Abah Sule, P. E LOVE IS THE ONLY FORCE CAPABLE OF TRANSFORMING AN ENEMY INTO A FRIEND."”

Engr.Abah Sule

Love, God, World

“I like the word fuck. Fucking deal with it and move on to the first fucking question you have.”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter

Interview. Citation needed.

Question

“[ A ] What else did the gods tell you about my future? … [ B ] Not to love any other woman. Similer: It is good to be loved, but when it's sepreated by a distance, go for the nearest. In order words love the one you are with.”

Engr.Abah Sule

Love, God, Future

“The tiniest gesture -- a smile, a gentle look, a simple pat on the arm, a soft word -- can change a person's life. Before this very day is out, you are going to have a chance to live in that possibility. Look. Watch. See what this day brings you. And be ready.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

Life, Smile, Change, Chance

“In using God’s Energy, the word “I” is the ignition key of creation. What follows the word “I” turns the key and starts the engine of manifestation.
Thus, when it “looks as if” Personal Creation is not working it is only because the Primal Energy has brought you what you inadvertently selected rather than what you thought you chose.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

God, Personality

“Use words that empower you, use beliefs that empower you, and use actions that empower you—the trinity.”

Ralph Smart

“Words were so puzzling. should mean a present just asshould mean to stick tacks in people.”

Beverly Cleary book Ramona the Pest

Source: Ramona the Pest

People

“Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Speech on receiving the London Times Literary Award November 2, 1949
Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches, Hyperion (2003), p. 453 ISBN ISBN 1401300561
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Source: Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

“Words and a book and a belief that the world is words…”

David Foster Wallace book The Broom of the System

Source: The Broom of the System

Books, World

“Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says.
Stay.
Fight.
Live.
Take it.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

Past, Fight, Hurt

“Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

Source: House of Chains (2002)

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

Feeling, Suffering, Animals

“She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

Source: The Woman in White

Beauty, Heart

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”

Maya Angelou book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Variant: It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

“The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Can you come over to Amberwood? I need you to help me break curfew and escape my dorm.”
There were a few moments of silence. “Sage, I’ve been waiting two months to hear you say those words. You want me to bring a ladder?”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Silence, Waiting, Help

“Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.”

Helen Fisher (1947) Canadian anthropologist

Source: Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love

Men, Courage

“Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

Life, Happiness

“All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.”

Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter

Feeling

“The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The word “coincidence” exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.”

Chuck Klosterman Eating the Dinosaur

Source: Eating the Dinosaur

People

“The right words always seemed to come too late.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one.
"That’s what I was supposed to say…" he gasped out.
Those were his last words.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Pain, Smile, Parting

“would never make up anything like that.”
"That's because Aaron doesn't say anything that requires words of more than one syllable.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

“Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out, like the rain. (p. 85)”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Variant: The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain.
Source: The Book Thief

Way

“Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home

Women, Hate

“A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken”

Ian McEwan book On Chesil Beach

Source: On Chesil Beach

“It’s said that actions speak louder than words,” he went on, “but we still need words. We need to speak and we need to be heard.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: One with You

“Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.
This can be tricky.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Fear, Learning

“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”

Carolyn See (1934–2016) American writer

World, Change

“a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Source: A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

“It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Love

“The words you can't find, you borrow.
We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Reading

“I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

“Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Baby

“Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

“A wish is just words. Belief is the catalyst. It's what sets that wish into motion.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Off the Page

“I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Books

“This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkspell

Books, World, Help

“Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Music

“There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.”

Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer

Life

“when the phone rings
I too would like to hear words
that might ease
some of this.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

Source: The Impossible

Love

“Stones are raw, they blunt my paw,
but words will never hurt me.”

David Clement-Davies book The Sight

Source: The Sight

Hurt

“Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back.
'Dude!' the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson's weight. 'Do the words "low-carb diet" mean anything to you?”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

“The word Styx got her [Mrs. O'Leary, the hellhound] excited. She probably thought I meant sticks. She jumped a few times,, and then calmed down enough for me to push Nico onto her back.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Time

“As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.”

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor

Understanding

“One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infamous

Smile

“Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.”

Michel Houellebecq book Atomised

Source: The Elementary Particles

Love, Evil

“The thread of will-they-or-won't-they was the real driver of every word and glance and shift of body.

So… this was a date, Blay thought. A subtextual negotiation slipcovered in talk of books read and music enjoyed.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

Books, Music, Reading

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”

Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) American author

"How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)

People, Reality

“The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Feeling

“I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word… Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word's meaning.”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Band 11

Thinking

“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”

Joseph Conrad book Under Western Eyes

Pt. I
Source: Under Western Eyes (1911)
Context: Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Reality

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Quotes about wording
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