Words Quotes
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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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When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years.
Marianne Elliott
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If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
Paul Graham
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Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.
Confucius
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Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.
Dave Beard
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Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.
Annie Lobert
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Words shld be free. Release them from their sentences.
Amy King
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A tear is worth a thousand words.
Colleen Saidman
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If a leader's actions don't back up his or her words, those who are trying to follow will first grow confused.
Bill Byrd
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The mind advances only when it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.
Emil Cioran
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In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.
Homer
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I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly.
Hamilton Leithauser
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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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I say a lot of things - millions of words a day - so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.
Hillary Clinton
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I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.
Sarah Dessen
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I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple.
Dan Mathews
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I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.
Ruston Kelly
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I do believe that actions often speak louder than words.
Annette Gordon-Reed
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Nature's lessons are hard to learn. Harder still is it to translate Nature's lessons to others. Beside, the appeal of Nature is to the Emotions; and words are weak things ... by which to convey or to evoke emotion. Words seem to be the vehicles rather of ratiocination than of emotion. If, in these pages, there are scattered speculations semi-mystical, semi-intelligible, perhaps even transcending the boundaries of rigid logic, I must simply aver that i put in writing that only which was given me to say.
Arnold Haultain
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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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To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.
Arthur Schopenhauer
