Words Quotes

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
Johann wolfgang von goethe - when ideas fail, words come in very handy....
We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
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
Learned hand - words are chameleons, which reflect the color of...
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
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
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Stanislaw Lec
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.
Ugo Betti
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech - One does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.
George Eliot
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Author Unknown
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
Words divide us, actions unite us.
Slogan of the Tupamaros
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
Homer, The Odyssey
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
Shneur Zalman
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
John Fletche
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
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles, Antigone
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Nicolas Boileau
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
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
Robert Fulghum
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
Manly P. Hall
People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.
Gamal Abdel Nasse
James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957