Words Quotes
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Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.
Ian Bannen
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Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.
Ole Hallesby
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The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.
David Jeremiah
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Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.
Alexandra Petri
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I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.
Sarah Monette
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...and she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly, but there was such a change in her voice. Coming from that iron place, it was heavy and true; it wasn't persuasive, or desperate, or antagonistic. It just was.
Laini Taylor
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The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.
Rabindranath Tagore
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There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words “teeny weeny.
Liane Moriarty
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I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.
William Faulkner
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I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I only have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.
Killer Mike
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I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.
Jimmy Smits
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I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.
Douglas Coupland
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I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'
John C. Reilly
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Ohh! Wow!! Ohh!! Wow!! Those the only two words you know? Sounds like a dirty movie.
Aya Nakahara
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The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.
Marti Noxon
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All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
Stephen Fry
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I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.
John Grant
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What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
Emil Cioran
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Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.
Confucius
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.
Barack Obama
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The temple of art is built in words.
J. G. Holland
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When you want to learn about how people write, their unpolished, unguarded words are the best place to start, and we have reams of them.
Christian Rudder
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Action achieves more than words.
Euripides