Best Words You Lines
318 Words You quotes by 241 unique authors
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Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
— Margaret Heffernan
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I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
— Samuel Beckett
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And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between…
— Cornelia Funke
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Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air,…
— Maya Angelou
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The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured.
— Thomas S. Monson
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If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
— Seth Godin
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Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors…
— Ani DiFranco
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Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words…
— Michael Ondaatje
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let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the…
— Frank Peretti
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This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of…
— Sylvia Plath
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And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you…
— Sylvia Plath
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In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences,…
— Henry Cloud
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The girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking entirely too slowly. "Hi," she said, and he nodded…
— Sarah Dessen
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God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we…
— Sylvia Plath
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Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily.…
— Norton Juster
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but…
— Yann Martel
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A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Ohh! Wow!! Ohh!! Wow!! Those the only two words you know? Sounds like a dirty movie.
— Aya Nakahara
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Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age, I guessed that's…
— Kathryn Stockett
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What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and…
— Audre Lorde
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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting…
— Anthony de Mello
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