Words Quotes

12991 Words quotes by 5885 unique authors

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. — Henry David Thoreau
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related… — Northrop Frye
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night,… — Isadora Duncan
Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions. — Thomas a Kempis
Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out… — Aldous Huxley
I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole… — Winston Churchill
All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point. — George Will
It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves.… — Sugar Ray Leonard
Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest. — Muhammad Ali
Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words. — Roger Kahn
I rarely think in words at all. — Albert Einstein
What a curious power words have. — Tadeusz Borowski
I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces polices that promote inequity. — Rosa Clemente
I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act. — Charles C. Krulak
But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep… — Miljenko Jergovic
I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension. — Brian Froud
Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with… — Brian Froud
Sometimes, in the deepest moments, there are no words. There is only food. — Roy Choi
The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world.… — Unknown Author
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words. — Ananda Coomaraswamy
Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary. — Steven Landsburg
The words 'California's Gold' will no longer mean anything about me or about a television series. They will mean what California's Gold has always truly… — Huell Howser
Hope is a waking dream.' I let the words echo in my head. The quote reminded me of that feeling you get when you start… — Unknown Author
I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love.… — Robin Wasserman
The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can… — Tim Wynne-Jones

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