Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Cather, Willa

Best Quotes about Words

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

You can stroke people with words.

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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 alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mohammed

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Wright, Steven

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Renard, Jules

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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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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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Zinsser, William

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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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