Words Quotes
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.
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.Edmund Burke
Speak what you think to - Day in words as hard as cannon - Balls and to - Morrow speak what to - Morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to - Day.Ralph Waldo Emerson
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare
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
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.Mother Teresa
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.Logan Pearsall Smith
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.Carol Burnett
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.John Maynard Keynes
Deeds, not words shall speak to me.John William Fletche
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
When words leave off, music begins.Thomas Carlyle
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
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
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.Herman Melville
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.Henry Adams
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
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
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 Wolfgang von Goethe
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
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.H. R. Haldeman
Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.Nicholas Boileau
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
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.Julia A. Fletcher Carney
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.John Christian Bovee
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.Alfred North Whitehead
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Deeds, not words shall speak me.John Fletche
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.Homer, The Odyssey
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
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.Homer, The Iliad
