Words Quotes

H. r. haldeman - we are getting into semantics again. if we use...
Joan baez - it seems to me that those songs that have been...
James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.
Michael J. Gel
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elde
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoove
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.
Winnie the Pooh
Thomas jefferson - the most valuable of all talents is that of never...
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 fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Anderson
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Nicolas Boileau
Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittie
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
Tom Robbins
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
If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ? I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.? If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane.
Ramtha
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.
South
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Mark Twain
A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.
Jason Mraz
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
T. S. Eliot
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
Theocritus of Chios
Words divide us, actions unite us.
Slogan of the Tupamaros
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
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
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Do not be wise in words - Be wise in deeds.
Jewish Prove
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self - Reliance", 1841
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roch
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Nicholas Boileau
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
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
Albert Einstein
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?
Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz