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The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.
Clare Short
Causes Now People Right Words World
Words are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Words
A politician’s words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
George Will
Words
Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.
George A. Smith
Life Words
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch
Character Mind State Words
Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame’s name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson’s wife was a CIA agent.
Louise Slaughter
May Name Now Want Wife Words
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
George Edward Woodberry
Art Life Music Voice Words
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
Mo Udall
May Tomorrow Wisdom Words
Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
Deed Deeds Talking Words
Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures – it is the designer’s job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.
Paul Rand
Ideas Job Meaning Needs Words
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
Louis Nizer
Comfort Man Therapy Words
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don’t believe in the good old words because we don’t believe in good old values anymore. And that’s why the world is sick.
Lin Yutang
Goodness Kindness Mercy Old Today Values Words World
I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I’d go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
Taryn Manning
Brother Mom Trying Visit Words
I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don’t appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you’ll never give an emcee props.
Talib Kweli
Artists Hell Honesty Music Words
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.
John C. Ransom
Accident Now Sense Words
Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words “gay marriage” are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.
Dick Morris
Americans Public Words
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Arguments Labor Will Words
The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.
Lord Kelvin
Idea Words
And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.
James Stockdale
Doubt Right War Words
There are times over different projects when I’ve asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren’t these swear words.
John Ratzenberger
People Projects Reason Swearing Words Writers
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
Experience Poetry Silence Words
If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words.
Dolly Parton
Country Country music Music Saying Talk Words
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
Thomas W. Higginson
Government Nothing People Words
In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.
Joe Bob Briggs
Words
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
Books History Humanity Words Writing
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
Honore De Balzac
Words
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
Ken Follett
Anxiety Care Destiny Success Suspense Words
When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.
Doug Ose
Legislation Trying Words
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel
Deeds Ideas Impulses Memories People Shadows Truth Words
When you are there, you are. With words, you aren’t.
Klaus Kinski
Words
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I’ve been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me – you’re doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
Anthony Doerr
Experience Friends Fun Man Maturity May School Trying Words
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Words
I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.
Barbara Kruger
Artist Words
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
Ella Maillart
Emotions Words
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Beginning Completion Gratitude May Thankfulness Words
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men Thoughts Words
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen
Business Explanations Law Performance Promises Reality Words
In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.
Gil Kane
Words
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao Tzu
Words
The reason they call it ‘golf’ is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.
Leslie Nielsen
Reason Words
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Philip K. Dick
Control Manipulation Meaning People Reality Words
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
Jose Saramago
Man Order Thoughts Words
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
Anaxagoras
Men Quiet Words
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Judy Garland
Applause Love Man Night People Silence Words
Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it’s pleasure, but you don’t get wiped out.
Paul Simon
Ecstasy Pleasure Song Time Words
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: “What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.”
Joseph Addison
Man Sense Words
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Books Fact Numbers Reading Will Words
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I’m a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
Olivier Messiaen
Drama Faith God Life Words
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
George Ade
Man Words
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can’t see what’s underneath.
William Collins
Democracy Feminism Words
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