Words Quotes
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Ellen Glasgow
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I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!
Lydia Davis
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'The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world'
Maria Montessori
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A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.
John Lennon The Beatles
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They will wrest 'dull words' from my cold dead hands.
Alexandra Petri
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I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.
Kerry Stokes
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In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.
Joe Bob Briggs
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Prayer is a condition of mind, an attitude of heart, which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking, in sighing or in audible words.
Ole Hallesby
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Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.
Chuck Palahniuk
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It was enough just to sit there without words.
Louise Erdrich
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Words are but empty thanks.
Colley Cibber
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What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation.
M. Russell Ballard
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I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.
Zach Condon
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Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.
Napoleon Hill
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You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.
Antony Flew
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When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.
Eckhart Tolle
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In a nutshell, the idea of Juche means that the masters of the revolution and the work of construction are the masses of the people and that they are also the motive force of the revolution and the work of construction. In other words, one is responsible for one's own destiny and one has also the capacity for hewing out one's own destiny.
Kim Il-sung
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When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.
Kelly Clarkson
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For no one's authority ought to rank so high as to set a value on his words and terms even though nothing clear and determinate lies behind them.
George Berkeley
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Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
Martin H. Fischer
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There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.
Sai Baba
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I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.
Anthony Horowitz
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Growing up, I always saw the hypocrisy of the Catholic church. The history speaks for itself, and I grew incredibly frustrated and angry. I essentially just put that into my words.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words
Saint Augustine