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Words

You can stroke people with words.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

You can stroke people with words.

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

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

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

Wright, Steven

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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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

22.

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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

35.

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Mohammed

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

Cather, Willa