Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Hubbard, Ruth

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Walesa, Lech

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

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

Silesius, Angelus

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Twain, Mark

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.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Proverb, Chinese

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

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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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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Reid, Thomas

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Kraus, Karl

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Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

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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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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Cather, Willa

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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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Berger, John

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

Platen

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

Bachelard, Gaston

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A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Zinsser, William

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Card, Orson Scott

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Byron, Lord

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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

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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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Lehman, David

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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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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them --isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

Havel, Vaclav

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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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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

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