Motivational Quotes

Words

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

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Best Quotes about Words

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

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

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

You can stroke people with words.

11.

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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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

Platen

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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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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

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Renard, Jules

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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 alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Zinsser, William

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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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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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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark