Motivational Quotes

Words

The words of the world want to make sentences.

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Words

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Hemingway, Ernest

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

Twain, Mark

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a weasel word after another there is nothing left of the other.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Woolf, Virginia

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There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Zinsser, William

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The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Daumal, Rene

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

Berger, John

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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Rohn, Jim

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You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Carnegie, Dale

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

Jordan, June

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When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Butler, Samuel

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

Saperstein, Rose

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

Hays, Ed

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Chase, Stuart

33.

Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.

Platen

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It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Waugh, Evelyn

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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

Phillips, Wendell

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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

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I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

Twain, Mark

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.

L'Chiam

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joubert, Joseph

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Haldane, John B. S.

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We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.

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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Connolly, Cyril