Motivational Quotes

Words

A single word often betrays a great design.

- Racine, Jean

Best Quotes about Words

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

Zinsser, William

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

Diller, Phyllis

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.

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

Mohammed

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Renard, Jules

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

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

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Gladden, W.

20.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can stroke people with words.

23.

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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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Grellet, Stephan

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

Wright, Steven

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

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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 have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Stalin, Joseph

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

Kirchenbaum

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.

Fripp, Patricia

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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