Words Quotes
12991 Words quotes by 5885 unique authors
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
— Moliere
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Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.
— Leo Rosten
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Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
— George Santayana
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For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that…
— Unknown Author
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How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.
— Helen Keller
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What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say…
— Toni Morrison
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You don't wanna go eggin' him on. It'll never be my chair that your on, crown so tight that it cuts off circulation to the…
— Eminem
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There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
— Dorothy Parker
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Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
— Abdelkader El Djezairi
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There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain…
— Lorenzo Snow
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The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Words are as beautiful as wind horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral.
— Unknown Author
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What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds.…
— Berthold Auerbach
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Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is…
— Dave Barry
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In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.
— Thomas Sowell
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Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love.
— Laozi
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But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see…
— Thomas Merton
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We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to…
— William J. Clinton
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I must confess that I've never trusted the Web. I've always seen it as a coward's tool. Where does it live? How do you hold…
— Stephen Colbert
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Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day…
— William O. Douglas
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Christ is our hope, our cleansing and santification, our resurrection, life and repose. He alone is what we all need, and therefore, the Orthodox Church…
— John of Kronstadt
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There is a joy in the actual taste of vanilla ice cream that does not come from knowing the chemical formula of vanilla. There is…
— Charles Tart
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No one else can feel it for you only you can let it in no one else, no one else can speak the words on…
— Natasha Bedingfield
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