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In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like… — Joshua Foer
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision. — Joseph Joubert
It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and… — Tim Berners-Lee
In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A… — Simon Sinek
When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop… — James Surowiecki
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment… — Orhan Pamuk
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name? — James Joyce
Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying… — William Hazlitt
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women in at least this one… — Jeffrey R. Holland
The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill… — Kelley Armstrong
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch? — A A Milne
There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming… — Alfred de Musset
Sometimes I get tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces on my words like… — Graham Greene
I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the… — Sylvia Plath
In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless. — Sarah Dessen
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone --… — Emily Dickinson
I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that.… — Harper Lee
It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did… — Victoria Alexander
O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet — William Shakespeare
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when… — Janet Fitch

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