Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Words

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

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

Platen

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

Kraus, Karl

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.

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Walesa, Lech

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

10.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

11.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

12.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

13.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

14.

You can stroke people with words.

15.

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

Card, Orson Scott

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

17.

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

18.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

19.

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

Woolf, Virginia

21.

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

Zinsser, William

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

23.

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

24.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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 will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

28.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Reid, Thomas

31.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

33.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Cather, Willa

46.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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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

49.

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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master