Words Quotes
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Anger should never be permitted to rise in our bosoms, and words suggested by angry feelings should never be permitted to pass our lips. A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.
Brigham Young
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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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I learn a lot; what I learn cannot be expressed in words.
Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
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I have no words for my reality.
Max Frisch
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Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
Blaise Pascal
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Coming into existence is always bad for those who come into existence. In other words, although we may not be able to say of the never-existent that never existing is good for them, we can say of the existent that existence is bad for them.
David Benatar
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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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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
J. G. Holland
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The attitude behind your words is as important as the words themselves.
Adele Faber
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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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My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.
Michael K. Williams
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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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The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
Joanna Scott
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When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
George Horace Lorimer
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I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.
Peter Ackroyd
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God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words.
Anna Hempstead Branch
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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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When I posted the 8,500 words on what Twitter should be, I wanted to make clear this wasn't a vision statement for the future. What was so frustrating about it is that's what it should've been already.
Chris Sacca
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The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want peace; if one of them insists on using force to oblige the other to work for him and serve him, then the other, if he wishes to retain his dignity as a man and not be reduced to abject slavery, will be obliged in spite of his love of peace, to resist force with adequate means.
Errico Malatesta
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Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
John Milton
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Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
Arthur Cleveland Coxe
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I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.
Robert Frost
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Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang
Lao Tzu
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I don’t have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.
Sarah Kane