Quotes about wording

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“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.”

“When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.”

“Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word 'emotion' stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.”

“Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later--no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover or how much we learn or forget--we will return.”

“Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.”

“POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord?
HAMLET: Words, words, words.”

“Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.”

“No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.”

“Never forget the nine most important words of any family-

I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.”

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”

“Tears are words that need to be written.”

“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:]

It is true that both the woman and the male worker are condemned to silence by their exploitation. But under the current system, the worker's wife is also condemned to silence by her worker-husband. In other words, in addition to the class exploitation common to both of them, women must confront a particular set of relations that exist between them and men, relations of conflict and violence that use physical differences as their pretext.”

“This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words
With better appetite.”

“Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!”

“Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.”

“How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!”

“There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by my self.”

“Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.”

“I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash
I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want)”

“People say I love you all the time - when they say, ‘take an umbrella, it’s raining,’ or ‘hurry back,’ or even ‘watch out, you’ll break your neck.’ There are hundreds of ways of wording it - you just have to listen for it, my dear.”

“What do you think dignity's all about?'

The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.”

“If you're not ready to die for it, take the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary.”

“Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.”

“Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.”

“Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.”

“And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.'
Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?'
Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies… it’s just a word.”

“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”

“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”

“Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.”

“When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.”

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…. Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”

“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless…”

“Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.”

“A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.”

“The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.”

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”

“Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely. Don't squander your words or your thoughts. Consider that even the simplest actions you take for your lives matter beyond measure… and they matter forever.”

“…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.”

“Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.”

“Words are loaded pistols.”

“You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”

“I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word.”

“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.”

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

“The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the words with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to those whose nest whence he sprang.”

“Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.”

“Very' is such a strong word…”

“Words are finite organs of the infinite mind.”

“Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?”

“Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”

“I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”

“Lessee… he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.”

“as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.”

“No” is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you.”

“It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?”

“People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”

“What we would like to do is change the world--make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, the poor, of the destitute--the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor, in other words--we can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as our friend.”

“I want to
let her know
though
that all the nights
sleeping
beside her

even the useless
arguments
were things
ever splendid

and the hard
words
I ever feared to
say
can now be
said:

I love
you.”

“one word could change the whole world”

“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”

“The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart.
And now my soul was crying.”

“I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)”

“You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. […] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.”

“The ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."”

“It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.”

“What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.”

“I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.”

“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”

“What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you… Look.”

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”

“The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint. …  I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way — things I had no words for.”

“How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!”

“In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?”

“There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.”

“So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”

“Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.”

“Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--"
"You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.”

“The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.”

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”

“Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.”

“Memories fade but words hang around forever.”

“The word "superstar" is an ilusion”

“The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.”

“Hate is too mild of a word. But it's nothing personal, I don't think.”

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”

“I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.”

“I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words”

“My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.”

“He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.”

“Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.”

“for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.”

“I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.”

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”

“Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words”

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”