Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
Nikki Giovanni
The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
Storm Jameson
Little words hurt big ideas.
Howard W. Newton
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
Horace Mann
My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.
Tiger Woods
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Hermann Hesse
What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
Richard J. Daley
The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies.
Pauline Kael
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
Thomas Shadwell
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
Julian Sorrell Huxley
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Pierre joseph Proudhon
Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.
John Mccain
I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl.
Alicia Silverstone
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
Hortense Calisher
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon
To be happy, drop the words 'if only,' and substitute instead the words 'next time.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
Dennis Potter
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
Lech Walesa
I'm the kind of person to wait until I've gained ten pounds to start exercising.
Yasmine Bleeth
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
Antisthenes
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
Sir John Vanbrugh
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen
A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
Warren Spahn
A gentle word opens an iron gate.
Bulgarian Proverb
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
Charlie Chaplin
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
Herbert Kaufman
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
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis De Tocqueville
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.
J. B. Phillips
I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.
James Agee
Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams without any noise will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.
Robert Leighton
Anything that begins "I don't know how to tell you this" is never good news.
Ruth Gordon
The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
William H. Gass
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
Richard Wright
They're not understudies, they're overstudies.
George S. Kaufman
The words walked right out of my mouth.
James Brady
Words are sometimes sensitive instruments of precision with which delicate operations may be performed and swift, elusive truths may be touched; often they are clumsy tools with which we grope in the dark toward truths more inaccessible but no less s.
Helen Merell Lynd
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
Theodore Dreiser
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
Manly Hall
English is a funny language. A fat chance and a slim chance are the same thing.
Jack Herbert
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost
A whole page of learned polysyllables may not convey as much as the statement that a certain woman is a bitch, or that a certain man is a jerk.
Eric Berne
I wrote a thousand words every day.
Jack London
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
Oh! don't use big words. They mean so little.
Oscar Wilde
When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
Chuck Palahniuk
I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me.
Thomas Jefferson
There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
Robert Frost
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
Whether one is Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, how you live your life is proof that you are or not fully His. We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefor, who are we to condemn anybody?
Mother Teresa
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Carl Sagan
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe
I understand a fury in your words, but not the words.
William Shakespeare
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.
William Shakespeare
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
William Shakespeare
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
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
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
William Shakespeare
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley
Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.
Aldous Huxley
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace Mann
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway
I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Use soft words and hard arguments.
English Proverb
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
Alfred North Whitehead
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or is discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale Carnegie
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Pythagoras
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
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
Confucius
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. 'It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
Lewis Carroll
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. Rowling
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
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
Ronald Reagan
Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.
William Cobbett
While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
Cyril Connolly
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
William Arthur Ward
Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.
Arlo Guthrie
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
Dolly Parton
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
Steve Prefontaine
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis
. . . early morning does not mince words . . .
John Galsworthy
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
Jonathan Swift
Words like 'retirement' just don't appeal to boomers. We are really careful in our language. They are looking more for individuality and ways to express themselves.
Andrew Smith
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
Blaise Pascal
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?'
Saint Jerome
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The people have been awesome. There are no words for how hard they work.
Mary Kindred
They're certainly saying all the right words, but after their history, everyone's waiting to see them execute.
Mike Feibus
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson
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
You find humor in the weirdest things down there, you're just looking for reasons to laugh, it was just - there's no words for it. It was unbelievable.
Dustin Bruns
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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
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
Omit needless words.
William Strunk, Jr.
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
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two.
Lee Iacocca
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.
Antonin Artaud
He used a lot of words. He tried to be very specific and descriptive, which is something I try to be as well. But also his literary take on what I call the American teenage experience ... rock 'n' roll always sounds best when covering that topic.... Springsteen had teenage dramas that were so vivid.
Craig Finn
[Her words of wisdom in her new book,] Fearless Future, A Map Through An Uncertain Present, ... Louise is a wise guide, whose insights will help anyone open to the potential for joy and fulfillment that lies within everyone.
Larry Dossey
Just those words, 'Monday Night Football,' and America knows what you're talking about.
Fred Gaudelli
Cancer affects all of us, whether directly or indirectly. When you hear the words.
Cynthia Guariglia
I'm not sure that just because [rookie] Reed Sorenson didn't have to race cars to put food on the table doesn't mean that he can't be as passionate. It's a different time and a different age. But certainly as an old-school guy, I don't think I have the words for it yet to explain why [Earnhardt] was able to have the kind of impact that he had on the sport.
Mark Martin
I don't recall him saying those words, no.
Thomas Bauer
It's indescribable. I can't really put into words how I feel. I am nervous all the time ... excited, scared, anxious, all these feelings all wrapped into one.
Meg Dahlman
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
Amanda Cross
Given the situation Tiffany was put into this year, she's done a great job handling the pressure of sharing her knowledge and experience with the freshmen. One of Tiffany's strengths is that she follows up her words with the way she plays; she's a great leader by example and we all see from Tiffany that hard work really does lead to being a great basketball player.
Nina Norman
They are good words and very good sentiments have been expressed but the 'ifs and buts' are there. But overall, it's a step forward.
Pran Chopra
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
Eric Hoffer
I don?t think there are any words to say how good they?re going to be the next three years. They work harder than anyone I know. They have really good attitudes, and coach Boyle is doing an amazing job. So you can definitely look for us to be competitive contenders the next three years.
Renee Wright
Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
Jewish Proverb
These are the words that I keep coming back to. This was when I knew the situation would be out of our hands.
Amy Wilson
When you hear those words, autism, you think 'is he ever going to get married, is he ever going to date, is he ever going to be able to tell me his feelings?.
Melissa Howell
Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was young.
James Elroy Flecker
Now, don't use the words 'good luck' -- this is blessed food. This is a heavenly dish. This is the real deal.
Judy Jones
It just seems impossible to comprehend. Just how many did we kill? I honestly have the feeling of groping for words to explain this or I might say My God what have we done.
Robert Lewis
There are inspirational words all over it. I thought it was going to be a little one-day project, and it became a solid five-day project. I put a lot of love into it.
Judy Anderson
You get a sense that the letter-writer is in a groove, pouring out these words that give you insight to what this person is thinking.
Andrew Carroll
We hope vehicle manufacturers will come to the point where they are fitting all vehicles with a side-airbag package. In other words, front, side and head protection.
Jack Haley
I really can't put this into words. I love this place so much, and I love the people here so much. This is really just overwhelming.
Nic Taunton
It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
John Wilkins
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.
James Bryce
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Actions lie louder than words.
Carolyn Wells
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
Guy Debord
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Philip K. Dick
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
Lucille Clifton
Maximum chief of the Spanish army, in other words, the person responsible for the torturers.
Arnaldo Otegi
Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.
Jon Corzine
In that time, Sibley didn't mince words. He supported the right to vote for women and the initiation of a graduated income tax. He was not going to be told what to think.
Jack Baker
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle
The greatest reward is to know that one can speak and emit articulate sounds and utter words that describe things, events and emotions.
Camilo Jose Cela
What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.
Karl Rahner
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Wallace Stevens
I managed to get the four most polite children ever and they blushed through most of the rehearsals. At first, they were very uncomfortable with it and whispered the words. But, they got used to it because all of their characters use swear words.
Katie Keyser
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.
Tom Robbins
There are no words to describe him. He's unbelievable. We just tried to mix things up.
Mark Granger
We're not going to do the details environmental analysis, but are there any obvious, major pitfalls? A facility like this can tend to influence development patterns. So if that's true does it fit with development patterns and if not does that raise red flags on its feasibility? In other words, how does it fit within the system, not just transportation but the area as a whole?
Paul Mullen
Jim was in his element that day. He was a fantastic choreographer of words and he wanted us to pretend we were the SAS on a raid. We were to go in there, shoot 'em up, grab their beer and women and then bugger off. And that, of course, is basically what we did.
Roger Baird
It's an issue of respect; that's what we're finally getting. I never would have thought a year ago, even a few months ago, that I would be sitting down and talking to the mayor. Now we have to see the action behind these words.
John Larkin
I'm bringing an ancient instrument and using it to play modern dance music. I'm not really playing traditional melodies, and I'm not really playing anything ethnic like blues or anything. It's kind of future music really. It's not related to anything culturally. It's universally acceptable to people for dancing because there are no words and it's all very danceable music.
Jamie Janover
It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.
Chris Cornell
Police were called and there were some heated words exchanged between the union representative and Ms. Knight.
Richard Mccann
We do know that she killed five children; that it was very methodically and deliberately planned out. That's through her own words.
Kaylynn Williford
There's an old saying that actions speak louder than words, and today it's our intention to prove that products speak louder than actions.
Nick Scheele
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn
It's clear in my mind and it's clear in most people's minds, ... a fog of words.
Mike Ramsey
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Robert Southey
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Thomas C. Haliburton
Who Is Jill Scott? Words & Sounds Vol. 1.
Jill Scott
I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.
David Lynch
My mom has been calling out words from books, and I write them down and then she checks them to make sure I spelled them right. I like to read and work crossword puzzles, but I really like to be outside more.
River Mann
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Norman O. Brown
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
They will have words like Christmas and Jesus in them, which makes them a little harder to filter out.
Andrew Klein
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Jean Paul Richter
In other words, instead of terminating it, the pacing actually perpetuated and worsened the initial condition in about 20 percent of the cases. That percentage approximates the frequency with which this is thought to occur in patients with implanted defibrillators.
Nenad Bursac
The current image of the Old Town can be summed up in three words: unsafe, uncomfortable and difficult to access. That needs to be changed.
Candrian Attahiyyat
Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.
Karl Rahner
The stitch of a book is its words.
Rumer Godden
We speak the ebonics of Spanish. The first things we learned were the numbers and cuss words.
Andrew C. Roberts
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
Paul Wellstone
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
William Albert Allard
It was surprisingly touching. It's more real than words on a page.
Sarah Olson
In extraordinary ways, through words and deeds, Sean O'Sullivan has demonstrated the power of ideas to change the world, ... Through Sean's million-dollar 'Change the World Challenge' gift, he is inspiring future generations of entrepreneurs at Rensselaer to follow in his fine footsteps.
Ann Jackson
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