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Words

You can stroke people with words.

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

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

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

10.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

11.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wright, Steven

16.

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

Kirchenbaum

17.

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

18.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

20.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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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 do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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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

27.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

28.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

43.

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

Card, Orson Scott

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

45.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

46.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Zinsser, William

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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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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