Words Quotes
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.Florence Scovel Shinn
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
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.Menande
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.Robert Southey
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
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.John Christian Bovee
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.John Dewey
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.Hermann Weyl
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.Winnie the Pooh
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.Earl of Roscommon
There are tones of voices that mean more than words.Robert Frost
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
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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
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
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare
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
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.William Arthur Ward
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.Rudyard Kipling
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.Orson Scott Card
Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.William Shakespeare
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
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.William Cowpe
Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.John Greenleaf Whittie
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
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...Robert Fulghum
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
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 understand a fury in your words, But not the words.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2
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.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.Buddha
