Words Quotes
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.Thomas Jefferson
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...CIA Manual
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.Sir Winston Churchill
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.Learned Hand
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.William Shakespeare
I banish fear with two words: you lead.Demetri Kolokotronis
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.Unknown
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.Ugo Betti
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.John Ruskin
No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - - In other words, not a thing, but a think.Penelope Fitzgerald
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.Henry Ward Beeche
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.Homer, The Odyssey
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther King, Jr.
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.John Calvin
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.Theocritus of Chios
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
We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.Bible, Proverbs 15: 1 (KJV)
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.Neil Postman
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.Johann von Goethe
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.William Shakespeare
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.Anatole France
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.Hazrat Inayat Khan
