Words Quotes
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
Tacitus
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The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.
C. S. Lewis
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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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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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When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.
Marina Abramovic
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
A. R. Ammons
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If you ever get injured or have an asthma attack, the last words you get out are, 'Sammy Davis suite, please.' That's, like, three rooms on the eighth floor of Cedars-Sinai.
Charles Nelson Reilly
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Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
Bertrand Russell
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As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time.
Carol W. Greider
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
Camille Paglia
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I'm really fortunate that I type 120 words a minute.
MaryJanice Davidson
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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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Music without words means
Kabir
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'Wal'r, my boy,' replied the Captain, 'in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of.'
Charles Dickens
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Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.
Pablo Picasso
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As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.
James McCloughan
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I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.
Lorrie Moore
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Just to be a part of something that can travel beyond and reach the lives of people and help them through a daily problem or struggle or even just giving encouraging words, period. I feel like it's very powerful. I thank God for my gift.
BJ the Chicago Kid
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The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.
Emily Dickinson
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True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.
Lao Tzu
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Two would actually do it - two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world - two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures - don't hurt.
Roger Caras
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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
Alan King
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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
Alan Turing
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There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.
Joanne Rowling