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Words

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

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

Kraus, Karl

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

You can stroke people with words.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Kirchenbaum

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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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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Reid, Thomas

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

25.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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.

31.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

33.

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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

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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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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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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 single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous