Words Quotes

Alexander pope - words are like leaves and where they most abound,...
Michael j. gel - brain researchers estimate that your unconscious...
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
William shakespeare - speak to me as to thy thinkings, as thou dost...
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad
Words - - So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
When words leave off, music begins.
Thomas Carlyle
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
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
Harold Ross
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'
Dorothy Parke
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.
Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05
Hope is the thing with feathers - - That perches in the soul - - And sings the tune without words - - And never stops, at all.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Baldwin
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles, Antigone
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech - One does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.
George Eliot
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.
Patrick Overton
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer, The Odyssey
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years.
Margaret Hilda Thatche
The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beeche
The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.
Home
I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.
A. S. Neill
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittie
When words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Anderson
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
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.
Marcel Marceau
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
William Shakespeare
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?
Eknath Easwaran
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
Jonathan Swift
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
William Arthur Ward
Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.
Saint Francis of Assisi