Words Quotes

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise.

William Carlos Williams

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 05, 2004

Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.

Henry David Thoreau

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

William Shakespeare

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Fran Lebowitz

Use soft words and hard arguments.

English Prove

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Pindar, Nemean Odes

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.

William Shakespeare

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Neil Postman

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

George Du Maurie

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

Sir Winston Churchill

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Henry Fielding

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

George Gordon Byron

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order - Poetry the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.

William Shakespeare

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

William Penn

We gladly feast on those who would subdue us... not just pretty words, Fester.

Morticia Addams - From the Addams Family movie

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

Michael J. Gel

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them?

Buddha (563 - 483 B. C.)

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.

Simon MacDonald

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.

A. S. Neill

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.

Antonio Salieri, title of an opera

The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.

Home

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Mother Theresa

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

Homer, The Odyssey

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Father Jerome Cummings

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Ruth Hubbard

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James