Words Quotes

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 05, 2004

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

Theocritus of Chios

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

Jason Mraz

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - - Up to fifty words used in correct context - - No human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Carl Sagan

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

Francis Quarles

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Nicholas Boileau

We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mary McCarthy

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Phyllis Mcginley

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.

Author Unknown

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

Author Unknown

To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.

Jose Antonio Burciaga

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

John Harold

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.

A. A. Milne, Winnie - The - Pooh

There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

Use soft words and hard arguments.

English Prove

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.

T. S. Eliot

What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise.

William Carlos Williams

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Homer, The Odyssey

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

John Fletche

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Frederika Breme