Words Quotes

12991 Words quotes by 5885 unique authors

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it. — Giovanni Boccaccio
Where there are no women there are no good manners — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY — Florence Scovel Shinn
Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you… — John C. Maxwell
Before they read words, children are reading pictures. — Unknown Author
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it… — Eric Carle
My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in… — Dav Pilkey
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. — Patrick Ness
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels… — Meg Rosoff
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. — Pierre Bourdieu
In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't… — Malala Yousafzai
It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago.… — Mahatma Gandhi
For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back… — Mahatma Gandhi
Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to… — Timothy Pickering
You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words… — Jonathan Lethem
In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature. — Larry Niven
No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus. — Samuel Rutherford
I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home. — Mahmoud Darwish
What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts. — Emile M. Cioran
It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind. — Philip Larkin
If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day… — Ian Fleming
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one… — David Lehman
Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the… — W S Merwin
In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to… — Amanda Palmer
Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate. — Neal Cassady

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