Words Quotes
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden
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And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
Yehuda Amichai
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I think if someone were to ask me to put in one sentence what it is that I do, I would say that I try to be in action more than in words.
Chris Doubek
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Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are necessary.
M. Shadows
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
Octavio Paz
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
Yoko Ono
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
Blaise Pascal
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
Oscar Wilde
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We of alien looks or words must stick together.
C.J. Sansom
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But his words fall away. He looks confused. He looks flustered and sorry. Like you do when you run up to someone you think you know and take her arm and she turns around and you were wrong.
Jennifer Donnelly
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Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.
Jeff Buckley
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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
Aristotle
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Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.
Xenophon
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Oh I'm just a man, that's the way I was made.I'm not too good at sayin' what you need me to say.It's always right there on the tip of my tongue.It might go unsaid but it won't go undone.So when those three little words come so easy to you,I hope you know what I mean when I say, me too.
Toby Keith
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
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I love taking on other people's words. They are much more interesting to me than my own.
Ben Whishaw
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Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.
J. Cole
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
John Langdon
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Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.
Alan Colmes
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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It made her eyes fill up with tears, and she for a few more minutes starting it over, replaying it, watching his lips say the words: "We can be lonely together.
Rachel Caine
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The words of the Constitution … are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
Felix Frankfurter
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He reached across and fingered the pendant; I felt it move against my skin. "Willow, look," He said. "We haven't talked much about what might happen, but...you know that I always want to be with you, right? I mean--no matter what." And I had known it; I felt it every time he held me--but even so, actually hearing the words made my heart catch. "I want that, too," I said. "Always, Alex.
L.A. Weatherly