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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

A politician’s words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

George Will

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

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

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

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

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

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

I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.

Barbara Kruger

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.

Ella Maillart

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

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao Tzu

The reason they call it ‘golf’ is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

Leslie Nielsen

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

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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