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Words

You can stroke people with words.

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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

Wright, Steven

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

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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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 from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Platen

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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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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 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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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Mohammed

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Hubbard, Ruth

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

Twain, Mark

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.