The Words Quotes
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.
Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.
Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.
I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
My iPhone stays on. All my friends and family know that I hate the phone, so no one calls me on it. I just use it to play Words With Friends and take pictures of cute shoes.
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
Well "I do" are the two most famous last words. The beginning of the end. But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin.
... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.
When your commitment is to be loving regardless of the circumstances, there is no room for harsh words. You assert yourself not from a desire to control but from a desire to stand for who you are.
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
Everybody has a personal decision to make but hopefully my actions speak louder than words.
Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.
Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.
Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.
Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
