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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If everything you say gets laughed at...then you become afraid of everyone... and are no longer able to speak... even knowing all that does is bother everyone... Your heart.......shuts down... And your words die.
Natsuki Takaya
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There are certain situations in which you can't convey what you mean. Words don't always work.
Brian Morton
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I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.
Michael Douglas
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Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words.
Bisco Hatori
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The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace
Ezra Pound
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Actions speak louder than words. Businesses must act. Once the door to social consciousness is opened, bring the spirit of your company through it to affect change.
Brian Solis
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It seemed to me that I had mastered words to the point of sweeping away forever the contradictions of being in the world, the surge of emotions, and breathless speech. In short, I now knew a method of speaking and writing that—by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn’t supposed to fail—sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.
Elena Ferrante
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We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
Eugene H. Peterson
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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
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It is very beautiful over there. (last words)
Thomas A. Edison
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It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.
Brigham Young
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I get a little scared of words like maturity.
Sean Penn
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
Seneca the Younger
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Jesus kept his harshest words for the religious bullies he encountered and reached out to sinners and publicans, all with a measure of love and grace, in order that they might be saved.
Brian Houston
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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I thought I’d learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time.
Kiersten White
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You had better run from me. My words are fire.
Rumi
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Trauma radically changes people: that in fact they no longer are “themselves.” It is excruciatingly difficult to put that feeling of no longer being yourself into words.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams
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...choosing words is harder than I thought.
Cynthia Lord