Words Quotes
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Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.
Craig Brown
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Words can cause real harm and interfere with a person's education. Campuses have a duty to act-- sometimes legally, always morally-- to protect their students from injury.
Erwin Chemerinsky
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Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.
Juan Pablo Galavis
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Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.
Brigham Young
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The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.
Bob Goff
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The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful poems where too much emotion clashed with too many words.
Paul Engle
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I don't have your way with words "Sin said. "So I'm just going to go with a quick response. Ha
Sarah Rees Brennan
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I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Kind looks, kind actions, kind words, and a lovely, holy deportment towards them will bind our children to us with bands that cannot easily be broken; while abuse and unkindness will drive them from us, and break asunder every holy tie that should bind them to us and to the everlasting covenant in which we are all embraced.
Brigham Young
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They are likely to have less educated parents who own fewer books and talk to them less from the time they are infants—a gap that’s been estimated at 30 million words by the time they start kindergarten.
Anya Kamenetz
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But a person’s smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time. Much longer than a house.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.
John McAfee
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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.
Walt Whitman
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Feminism was a dirty word for a while.
Miranda Richardson
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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
Helen Keller
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It is very beautiful over there. (last words)
Thomas A. Edison
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A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
Beryl Markham
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Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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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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When words fail, the guitar speaks.
George Szell
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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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Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.
Mother Teresa
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It seemed, however, that I had. I didn’t want any more, so I got them. And now I am glad, for if, as I had sometimes wished at that time, I could have finished with a consciousness become unbearable, if, in other words, I had then died, I would never have known a great many very beautiful and delightful things. Evidently, then, it is wise not too soon to lose patience with life, but to wait and see what it may have round its next corner.
Elizabeth von Arnim