Motivational Quotes

Words

Words are loaded pistols.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Words

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

You can stroke people with words.

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Reid, Thomas

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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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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Fripp, Patricia

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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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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

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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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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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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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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 the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

Twain, Mark

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Mohammed

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.