Words Quotes - Page 10

The beauty of words!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Words are weapons.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The wilderness is a seed of words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When silence greets you, listen for those powerful words lost within the void of reason...

Virginia Alison

We fail to say the right words, because we choose to say the wrong words! We choose to say the wrong words, because we fail to think of the right words!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Becareful when impression takes the place of expression in your intention

Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.

DaShanne Stokes

The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark out places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of words. A girl with a story to tell.

The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.

Say something to it, he said.As I looked at the baby, I felt nothing taking shape in mind or mouth. I had no idea what the sort of things were that somebody would say to a baby. I had no idea why anyone would say anything to a baby. I held it carefully, as one would a sack of apples. And then, with him watching me, nodding encouragingly, I began to say to it, for lack of anything else to say, all the words I had ever known, in order.

Alexandra Kleeman

Discouraging words should not weigh you down instead they should challenge you

Your words are determined by what dwells in you

Now we were standing around holding hands and not much was going on. I began to think of words I had known, just for fun, to fill up the blank space in my head. Couch, I thought. Cuisinart, I thought.The words felt different right now than they had before. They meant a little less, held a little less, but seemed somehow fuller: I had never really noticed how much sound there was in a word. The way it filled your mouth up with emptiness, a sort of loosened emptiness that you could tongue, an emptiness you could suck on like a stone. Stomach, I thought. Variety, I thought. Expectation. Intimation. Infiltration. Infiltration: I tongued that one further. I knew it had a hostile aspect, like someone breaking into your house or posing as someone you should trust. But it also had a lovely sound, a kind of tapered point and a gently ruffled edge, and as I repeated it over and over in my mouth it took on a really great flavor and I thought of water filtering in and out of a piece of fabric, back and forth, moving between, soaking it and washing out, soaking in and taking with it pale tremors of color, memory, resistance, all that stuff, until I felt like one of those pieces of cloth on the television commercials that got washed with the name-brand cleanser and is now not only white, but silky and mountain-scented.

Alexandra Kleeman

It is time to put down the pen; time to clear the throat. Speaking is a different thing altogether from writing. The spoken word has different properties, and different powers. If I have learned anything from writing down my own tale, it is this.

I love your loins, that's all,' Rachel says quietly. 'And now I love the word itself, and how words change, I love that too. And all the parts of you, I love them. That's all. And I'm not sad,' she whispers, gasping a little at the shock of her own tears, hot and extravagant, tears that catch the light in her lashes before they drop and roll across Zach's thighs, sparkling capsules, kaleidoscopic, the flow dynamic.

There are thousands of words in the English language for acts of senseless violence, but not one seems to be a contestant when a child dies.

More is said in silences than words ever could.

We were on stage. We were supposed to speak our dialogues. But at times, a smile says more than words ever can!

Every evening I sat on the music-stool and wrote down my day, and it was as if I, Anna, were nailing Anna to the page. Every day I shaped Anna, said: Today I got up at seven, cooked breakfast for Janet, sent her to school, etc. etc., and felt as if I had saved that day from chaos. Yet now I read those entries and feel nothing. I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing. Words mean nothing. They have become, when I think, not the form into which experience is shaped, but a series of meaningless sounds, like nursery talk, and away to one side of experience. Or like the sound track of a film that has slipped its connection with the film. When I am thinking I have only to write a phrase like ‘I walked down the street’, or take a phrase from a newspaper, ‘economic measures which lead to the full use of …’ and immediately the words dissolve, and my minds starts spawning images which have nothing to do with the words, so that every word I see or hear seems like a small raft bobbing about on an enormous sea of images. So I can’t write any longer. Or only when I write fast, without looking back at what I have written. For if I look back, then the words swim and have no sense and I am conscious only of me, Anna, as a pulse in a great darkness, and the words that I, Anna, write down are nothing, or like the secretions of a caterpillar that are forced out in ribbons to harden in the air.

I could have been a priest instead of a prophet. The priest has a book with the words set out. Old words, known words, words of power. Words that are always on the surface. Words for every occasion. The words work. They do what they're supposed to do; comfort and discipline. The prophet has no book. The prophet is a voice that cries in the wilderness, full of sounds that do not always set into meaning. The prophets cry out because they are troubled by demons.

Jeanette Winterson

Words can be arrows that inflict wounds. They can also be bandages that heal.

A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create.

Is it not so presumptuous to write a word? To write a word is to give the word a space all of its own. You build a home for it and hope it can find itself at home among all the other words. Nestled in a new place.

Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends.

He paid me to discover ways to express the unnameable; to get to the bottom of an utterance; to find words for the things for which there were no words yet, thereby bringing them into existence, committing them to paper, projecting them into the future. The work was part drudgery, part deity.

When there's a negative word or expression-immaculate, for example-but the positive is almost never used, and you choose to use it, you become rather amusing. Or pretentious. Or pretentiously amusing, which can sometimes be good. In any case, you are uncovering a buried word.

Words can inspire and words can destroy. Choose your words well.

Robin S. Sharma

What they actually did matters more than what they said

Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words...

I scream out the ropes of words that bound my tongue, and the heavens echo back...'I love you'.

Alfa H

I could be that tenebrous enigma that floods out your words with sighs and frustration.

Moonshine Noire

When I asked if she read poetry anymore, she said no. she had lost her taste for it. That was how she said it, lost her taste. I asked how that could happen, and she said she agreed with Plato, or at least Plato as summarized for her: that there was something dishonest about it and that he was right to want to banish the poets. What she mean't, she told me, was that the only reality was life, real life, and that these beautiful versions were lies and she no longer had patience for it.

When words lose their meaning and their capacity to bind those who use them, neither democracy nor the rule of law can long survive.

Knight seemed to weigh the precision of every word he used, careful as a poet. Even his handwritten letters had gone through at least one draft, he said, mostly to remove unnecessary insults. Only necessary ones remained.

Subtle voices’ are those positive or negative words that are subtly spoken into our lives. These ‘subtle voices’, although subtle, are too powerful because they tend to shape our thoughts and inform our actions. That is why it is essential that we be selective of what we allow into our thoughts.

There is a huge difference between those who follow Christ by words only and those who do so by action. The latter will always let you experience the steadfast love of God whenever you come into contact with them.

Paint me perfect poetry.

N'Zuri Za Austin

Oh... I just leave it......Words have as much weight as trying to jump from the 123333333334 Floor without a parachute and to be alive.

Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel.

So it became,the law of universe,to have the,profoundest,of the words,cloaked in the,darkest of the masks.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

All the words I have to say have turned into stars.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Sometimes words aren't necessary.

Words is but wind but dunts is the devil

Dorothy Dunnett

Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, "Gentlemen, let's proceed," and sensing Ellie's frown would add, "Sorry, Miss Arroway, but I think of you as one of the boys." The highest compliment they were capable of paying was that in their minds she was not overtly female.

One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt this before.

M.L. Rio

Let us use words carefully, because words can betray and kill.( "A gap of silence")

Erik Pevernagie

We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Whatever you do, be gentle. People might have forgiven your harsh words but they may never forget how it stabbed their heart at that time!

Mufti Ismail Menk

Prince's words had not been meant as a warning. Rather, he had been playing. He had been pretending. He had been speaking for speaking's sake. Could there be a more despicable use for words?

The words come at my call but who calls whom?

Jeanette Winterson

Let your words be petty and actions plenty!

Israelmore Ayivor

Negative words have a way of permeating our system and making themselves comfortable in our sub-conscious.

Your energy is louder than your words.

Catherine Louise Birmingham

Life is but words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Most of the people share quotes and wordings not because they follow them or absorb for life but they knows by share it i can be notice as a wise person.

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in schools, but those plucked from the human heart, the searing conditions of isolation. I did not have to be limited to my biography because of words, and I shared this with Faulkner, who invented new words and punctuation and expression and worlds. He utterly reshaped the world.

Tennessee Williams

The wonder of words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Words are powerful, so use every word wisely to create a better world.

I wouldn't go back to ashes or dustWords gave me life and in them I will surrenderFrom words to words..

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