Words Quotes
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
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.Henry James
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
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 game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.Florence Shinn
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
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
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
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
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.A. A. Milne, Winnie - The - Pooh
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.Lao - Tzu
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
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
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
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
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.Jonathan Swift
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
We gladly feast on those who would subdue us... not just pretty words, Fester.Morticia Addams - From the Addams Family movie
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.Winnie the Pooh
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours. Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.Napoleon
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.Alan Stewart Paton
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare
Words divide us, actions unite us.Slogan of the Tupamaros
In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.Joyce Carol Oates
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.William Shakespeare
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.Sir Winston Churchill
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.William Shakespeare
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.Shneur Zalman
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.Lech Walesa
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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 finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.Anatole France
