Best Their Words Quotations
139 Their Words quotes by 116 unique authors
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The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are…
— Brion Gysin
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Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.
— Patrick Lencioni
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[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I…
— Tracy Hickman
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Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?
— Brion Gysin
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Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.
— Orson Scott Card
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Don’t call me Lord Snow.” The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. “Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut…
— George R. R. Martin
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I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down…
— Patrick Ness
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Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see…
— Jonathan Maberry
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And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their…
— Lauren Oliver
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Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted…
— Zadie Smith
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To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices?…
— Louise Penny
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Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent…
— Margaret George
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Words were one of the most powerful forces known— or unknown— to man. The Most High had created this world with His words. And humans,…
— Gena Showalter
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What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated…
— Orson Scott Card
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What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
— Jason Calacanis
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For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important…
— Peter Singer
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We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom…
— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
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The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
— Joanna Scott
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Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.
— Roxane Gay
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War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made…
— Bruce Jackson
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Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.
— George A. Smith
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One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years…
— Philip Yancey
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