Break Quote by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

“Like Solzhenitsyn, I believe that in the end, words will break cement. Solzhenitsyn wrote, "So the word is more sincere than concrete? So the…

— Masha Gessen

“Cement is as impossible to escape as the dust of the earth, you can’t tell where it comes from because it’s already there. And…

— Herta Müller

The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one…

— Storm Jameson

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

— Douglas Adams

To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a…

— Joseph Devlin

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

— Samuel Butler

“Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

— Paulo Coelho

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

— Anonymous

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making…

— Teresa of Avila

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

— Stefan Zweig

Sometimes the smallest of words can make a huge difference.

— Aqeb Fardeen