Words Quotes
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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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Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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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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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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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
Helen Keller
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While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can be revealed.
Bessel van der Kolk
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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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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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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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It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
Elvis Costello
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A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
Haruki Murakami
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It is very beautiful over there. (last words)
Thomas A. Edison
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What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is something much more difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether he has got it 'right'.
Ernst Gombrich
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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.
Plato
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
George Eliot
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What business, said Priscilla's look more plainly than any words, what business had people to walk into other people's cottages in such a manner? She stood quite still, and scrutinized Mrs. Morrison with the questioning expression she used to find so effective in Kunitz days when confronted by a person inclined to forget which, exactly, was his proper place. But Mrs. Morrison knew nothing of Kunitz, and the look lost half its potency without its impressive background. Besides, the lady was not one to notice things so slight as looks; to keep her in her proper place you would have needed sledge-hammers.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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A painter is someone who can't use words. His only escape is to be a seer.
Bram van Velde
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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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There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.
Ellin Devis
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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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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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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