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Words

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Gladden, W.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Zinsser, William

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

19.

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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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 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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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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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 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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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Wright, Steven

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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 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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Proverb, Spanish

40.

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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