Words Quotes - Page 2

I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.

Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones.

Speak so polite with people that your ill wishers become your well wishers.

Raaz Ojha

The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The integrity of our relationships matters more than the boldness of our words.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.

Charles M. Blow

There was so much to say that we said nothing.

Philip Schuyler Allen

They were the kind of words you read back and every lettered limb surprises you because you never knew you really felt those things the whole time.

Hannah Brencher

No one really knows what words mean these days.

Words, one may argue, are such a drag, useless - don't think it too much, just do it. And no - I agree - over-thinking is a curse, but it is without words when I over-think, when I over-burn neurons. With words, things find their place. I've said this to myself a million times.

Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living the example is the best advice you can ever give. Only examples have children.

Nana Awere Damoah

Words are cheap but they gain greater worth when they first minister to the speaker of the same.

Nana Awere Damoah

And you never fall behind?”“Of course I do. But I always feel guilty when that happens. After all, my journal is the oldest and most loyal friend I have. And it never interrupts me when I’m speaking,” he added, with a boyish grin.

Zack Love

It is more blessed to give than to receive”, the Bible advocates. When it comes to advice, I humbly submit that it is more blessed to avail yourself of it, utilise it, apply it yourself, before you give it. Put it to use first before suggesting it to someone else.

Nana Awere Damoah

i would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings.

Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

I have a sort of . . . thing, I suppose, for certain words. They spark inside me, somehow, turning me to touchpaper, but I don't know what they are until someone says them.

Kipster is a perfectly valid word,” Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. “Okay, so what does it mean?” Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled to come up with an answer, and finally just changed the subject with school gossip. Mandy found herself just ignoring it… it always sounded the same, the same events, same rumors, same secrets, same affairs, but never anything of interest to her.“Well Sarah’s on drugs again and that’s why she did it in Mario’s backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid’s been cutting himself again so he was sent away to Halifax last week, and there’s a festival in Wolfville but Kathy won’t go because Audrey-Rose is going to be there and they hate each other, and….”Mandy had learned two years ago to detach herself from gossip; she’d learned it from Jud’s death. Wendy may have been eighteen years old but she could be immature on the best of days.

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

Zhuangzi

The real trouble is this: giving expression to thought by the observable medium of words is like the work of the silkworm. In being made into silk, the material achieves its value. But in the light of day it stiffens; it becomes something alien, no longer malleable. True, we can then more easily and freely recall the same thought, but perhaps we can never experience it again in its original freshness.

Erwin Schrödinger

Any punishment is an insult to the crime

Joy lurks in every mundane thing, just waiting to be found. Love is impervious to reason. And words are wonderful.

It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.

Sophocles

I love the way he says my name. With the elegance and utmost respect of a King, just before he bows to his Queen.

Crash studied her. Sometimes he seemed to understand her silence better than her words.

Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When words lose the value... nothing is left!

honeya

Once I came across two ideographs for the word "love." The first contained the root words "heart" and "hand" and "action"-love as hands and heart in action together. The other ideograph, for "passionate love," was formed of "heart," "to tell," and "a long thread.

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever.

The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.

We say no more on the matter and she asks me to help her find a word, an adjective to qualify something that falls on mankind, although not necessarily something of a meteorological nature, like rain, but a word associated with the apocalypse of the human soul and heart, but not in any direct way, more indirectly, like rain in the soul and nature oozing tears, she explains to me. Something like the smell of a birch tree in the rain, just one word. The obstetrician claims that no word could encompass that much, no single word could ever be that big.

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own--my words are gone.

wordslike mysterious mermaids come and live permanentlyin the soft sweepsand scars of my skin.

Rouge of my heart, intertwined with double-hued destiny,Thread of my thoughts, constant and rubicund legacy,Filament of my future, endeared unto my expectation,Cord of my emotion, seared with eternal elation.

My words are not a form of free advice. They are born through my journey called life!

Trishna Damodar

for we all have our own twilights and mistsand abyssesto return to.

some words bring warmthjust bybeing next to each other.

what ismore beautifultears, in someone’s eyesfor meor in my eyesfor them.

ahthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell.""It sounds evil.""It is," I answered, and we parted.

Gail Carson Levine

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

Once words have been said there is no way to un-say them

Your efforts extend like ripples on the ocean, much further than you know.

Richelle E. Goodrich

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

Lord Vetinari in a meeting: “what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That’s where the things were that they hoped he didn’t know and didn’t want him to find out.

Terry Pratchett

Clara Winter," he said. "You are a word person and don't ever forget it."He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people.

... she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she seemed, indeed, to wish to hear spoken, but, from prudence, would let her friend be the first to speak.

…the way people understood things had a lot to do with the way people were, how they had been shaped, what the wanted; tricks of rhetoric would not shift them.

The best sword that kills without a wound:-WORDS...!Killed without Trace...

Some things should never be said. Not out loud in clear, simple words. You talk around them. You leave gaps and blanks. You use other words and talk in curves and arcs for the worst things because you need to keep them like mist. Words are dangerous. Like a spell, if you name the mist, call out all of the words that describe it sharp and clear, you turn it solid, into something that no one should ever hold in their hands. Better that it stays like water, slipping between your fingers.

Words without thought is just that,words...

Faruk DML

The Best Sword that Kills without a Wound:- Words...!

Another one of your quippy japes?

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

i am alwaysstalking you, my dear. with my thoughtsmy words.my breath.

Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.

Margaret Cavendish

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