Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Phillips, Wendell

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

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

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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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You can stroke people with words.

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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 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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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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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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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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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.

Fripp, Patricia

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

Wright, Steven

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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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