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Top Quotes About Words
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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