Words Quotes
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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
Homer
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They, the women, were like the gargoyles, Mattie thought. Respected in words, but hidden from view of those who ran the city and managing to live in the darkness, in the secret interstices of life.
Ekaterina Sedia
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The attitude behind your words is as important as the words themselves.
Adele Faber
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Words shld be free. Release them from their sentences.
Amy King
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
Jasper Fforde
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Jared, allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people.
John Scalzi
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Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
Blaise Pascal
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The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
Walt Whitman
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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
Lao Tzu
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Everyone's encouraged to put things in their own words, to discover new things. So there's definitely an element of dynamic improvisation, for sure, which I think gives those scenes some of their energy, some of their electricity.
Steve Zissis
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I learn a lot; what I learn cannot be expressed in words.
Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
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Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
Laurie Anderson
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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
John Drinkwater
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We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.
Piet Mondrian
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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
Jonathan Sacks
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It is because in John’s Gospel we are not hearing two voices—the voice of Jesus and the voice of the narrator. We are hearing one voice. The author is speaking for himself and he is speaking for Jesus. These are not Jesus’s words; they are John’s words placed on Jesus’s lips.
Bart Ehrman
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I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
Laurie Anderson
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If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.
Aziz Ansari
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I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
Alasdair Gray
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Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.
Eric Church
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Feminism was a dirty word for a while.
Miranda Richardson
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I wrote my name upon the sand;I thought I wrote it on thine heart.I had no touch of fear, that words,Such words, so graven, could depart.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Words are powerful things. They can start—or end—wars. People believe in words. They are the fundamental expression of ourselves, the division between human and not, the means by which we learn. And while people use words to teach, to express art, to proclaim truths, at the most basic level, people use words to simply say: I am here.
Beth Revis