Words Quotes
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The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.
Philip James Bailey
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If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild.
Ben Weaver
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A single words are cruel burden to man if he doesn't learn not to pay attention on them.
Conn Iggulden
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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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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
Helen Keller
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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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Feminism was a dirty word for a while.
Miranda Richardson
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It is because in John’s Gospel we are not hearing two voices—the voice of Jesus and the voice of the narrator. We are hearing one voice. The author is speaking for himself and he is speaking for Jesus. These are not Jesus’s words; they are John’s words placed on Jesus’s lips.
Bart Ehrman
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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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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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Neither am I. A grown man should be able to acknowledge a sincerely offered apology and converse in sentences consisting of more than five words.
Beverly Jenkins
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
Erica Jong
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There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.
Joseph Glanvill
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That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.
Sarah Dessen
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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
Erica Jong
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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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Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
Seneca the Younger
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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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Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Charles Reade
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
H. P. Lovecraft
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We may search long to find where God is, but we shall find Him in those who keep the words of Christ. For the Lord Christ saith, ' If any man love me, he will keep my words; and we will make our abode with him.'
Martin Luther
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Let me tell you something you already know: reading is critically important - especially for Christian believers. God, after all, reveals Himself to us in the written words of Scripture. Think about it: when we read the Word, we place ourselves in the very presence of God.
Eric Metaxas
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
Yoko Ono
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No carelessness in your actions. No confusion in your words. No imprecision in your thoughts. (Hays translation)
Marcus Aurelius