Words Quotes
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.
Nigel Rees
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I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.
Anna Journey
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Nelson replayed his last musings to himself, and silently laughed. Listen to you! Jen was right. You're a born philosopher. In other words, full of shit.
David Brin
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Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.
Ashraf Ghani
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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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A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
John Millington Synge
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Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'
Kevin Keegan
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I definitely get nervous about if I'm going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don't enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight - I think that's really stressful.
Bridgit Mendler
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Because you didn’t need words when you were sitting in the light.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life.
Scott Snyder
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Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.
Gautama Buddha
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People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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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To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind.
Ernest Klein
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Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
Arthur Cleveland Coxe
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I'm not much of a storyteller with words!
Brad Mehldau
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With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.
Glen Campbell
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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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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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On my heart in beautiful calligraphy You’ve written words that only You and I can know. Their secret You promised to reveal one day but now I see You were only teasing.
Rumi
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
Laurie Anderson
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
Jasper Fforde