Words Quotes
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
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.Wilfred Funk
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
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.Andrew Alden
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.St. Francis of Assissi
Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.Sidney Madwed
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.Alfred North Whitehead
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
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.Thales
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.Mahatma Gandhi
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.William Shakespeare
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.William Shakespeare
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.Nicolas Boileau
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
Value your words. Each one may be the last.Stanislaw Lec
When words leave off, music begins.Thomas Carlyle
Deeds, not words shall speak to me.John William Fletche
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.Thomas Jefferson
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - - The book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.John Ruskin
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.William Shakespeare
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.Victor Hugo
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.Pythagoras
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.Joseph Conrad
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.
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.Rainer Maria Rilke
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.Henry Adams
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.Henry David Thoreau
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.Joyce Carol Oates
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.Shneur Zalman
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.Ian Gabirol
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.George Gordon Byron
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
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
