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Words

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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

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

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

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Wright, Steven

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Idle, Eric

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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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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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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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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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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.

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Zinsser, William

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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

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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Chinese