Words Quotes
12991 Words quotes by 5885 unique authors
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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
— Samuel Beckett
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Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.
— Robert H. Schuller
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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
— Norman O. Brown
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Just two small things: meditation and let-go. Remember these two key words: meditation and surrender. Meditation will take you in, and surrender will take you…
— Rajneesh
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Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of let-go. Those two…
— Rajneesh
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The whole art of allowing the truth to take possession of you is of being vulnerable, of being open, of being in a let-go. Or…
— Rajneesh
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To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a…
— Rajneesh
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By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless awareness. You need…
— Rajneesh
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Somebody asked me if I knew you. A million memories flashed through my mind but I just smiled and said I used to.
— Wiz Khalifa
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
— William Hazlitt
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Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.
— William Shakespeare
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LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why…
— Wallace Stevens
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He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to…
— Henry George
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the…
— Randy Pausch
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First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin…
— Dave Barry
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I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.
— Dave Barry
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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner…
— Chin-Ning Chu
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I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with…
— Ronald Reagan
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Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in…
— Ronald Reagan
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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.
— John B. S. Haldane
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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
— Walter Raleigh
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Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another…
— Dan Simmons
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Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
— Edward Thorndike
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