Motivational Quotes

Words

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Words

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

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

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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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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 always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

Yeats, William Butler

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Mohammed

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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Wright, Steven

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Lowell, James Russell

20.

The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

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

Zinsser, William

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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!

Kirchenbaum

25.

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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Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

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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

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Platen

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

Proverb, Spanish

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Twain, Mark

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.