Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Words

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

Cather, Willa

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Card, Orson Scott

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

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

Kirchenbaum

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Platen

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You can stroke people with words.

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Mohammed

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

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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.

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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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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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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