The Words Quotes
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.
There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
Words matter when you run for president. And they really matter when you are president.
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.
Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.
Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.
Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.
Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.
I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.
Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.
What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
Good medicine is bitter to the mouth, but has an effect on the disease. Faithful words hurt one's ears, but have value for one's conduct.
