Words Quotes

12991 Words quotes by 5885 unique authors

Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that… — Zig Ziglar
Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself? — John Daido Loori
It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another… — John O'Donohue
If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond… — Thomas Merton
You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer word or silence… — Zhuangzi
Words express neither objects nor ourselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life. — Henry David Thoreau
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. — Joseph Joubert
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words. — Josh Billings
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. — Samuel Daniel
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism. — Philip Yancey
"Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are… — Douglas MacArthur
It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global… — Douglas MacArthur
Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly… — Vaclav Havel
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out… — Ken Wilber
But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. — Unknown Author
Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit. — John Ruskin
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. — Lord Byron
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination… — Charles Horton Cooley
When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words… — Horace
The words can not return. — Horace
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades… — Francois Fenelon
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing.… — Ezra Pound

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