Words Quotes

Father jerome cummings - love is shown in your deeds, not in your words....
Author unknown - too many people run out of ideas long before they...
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 von Goethe
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Words divide us, actions unite us.
Slogan of the Tupamaros
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill
Cia manual - a threat is basically a means for establishing a...
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
Hedrick Smith
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
Manly P. Hall
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn
In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.
John Harold
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Henry Ward Beeche
He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?
Abba Eban
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
H. R. Haldeman
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - - In other words, not a thing, but a think.
Penelope Fitzgerald
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
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
Do not be wise in words - Be wise in deeds.
Jewish Prove
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
John Fletche
Use soft words and hard arguments.
English Prove
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.
Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
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
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.
Chinese Prove
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.
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
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.
Andrew Alden
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
Sir Winston Churchill
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
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Mark Twain