The Words Quotes
It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'
Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.
I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.
Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.
I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.
It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.
We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.
Hurrah Boys! Let's get these last few reds then head on back to camp. Hurrah!
Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.
How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
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.
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.
Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.
To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.
