Words Quotes

The two words expressed volumes.

~ Agatha Christie

Where would you be without etymology'? Lea asked sarcastically.'I think I might find words a little less interesting,' said Mr Ruche.

~ Denis Guedj

Mind your words, dear writer for you are holding a delicate reader in them.

~ Maria Stoica

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try. -- Nero Wolf in Death of a Dude.

~ Rex Stout

It was more than a string of letters put togetherit was a thick cloak in the coldand a strong defense against an enemyIt was more than the naked heart on paperit was a way to undress sadness … and sinsand an olive branch for the desperateWriting was her prayer and the words were felt.

~ M.j. Abraham

Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression of my very self which is inexpressible due to the shortcomings of my particular nature.

~ Chris Matakas

A promise is just an empty shell filled with words, and words are weightless.

~ Lik Hock Yap Ivan

Quotes tell a story. A stringing together of a few words can leave you with an idea that changes the course of your life, and can direct you toward reaching your highest potential as a human. The story they tell is derived from the experience which inspired them, and it is our sharing that experience that allows for the quote to resonate so deeply within our being.

~ Chris Matakas

Intentionally, or unintentionally, Kat had spoken with her eyes; tenderly and lovingly conveying a message to Freya that her tongue wouldn't let her speak. It was glaringly obvious they both felt it. The words were not important. The pauses, gazes, and drawn out breaths were what mattered.

~ Kiki Archer

Heart beats are marching like thousands of drums,Birds find their flight, thrown out of nest,We win some battles, then we lose some,Truth is no more than illusion at best.What has been said under veil of the night,Under the veil it will ever remain,But may it ever be in my right,I know i have never said it in vain.

~ Aleksandra Ninkovic

Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one.

~ Chris Matakas

I wondered how he'd learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken.

~ Amy Harmon

Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

~ Sōseki Natsume

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended meaning of the entire sentence. For instance, if the word love is intentionally or accidentally replaced with hate in a sentence, its effect could trigger a war or false dogma.

~ Suzy Kassem

Can we only speak when we are fully living what we are saying? If all our words had to cover all our actions, we would be doomed to permanent silence! Sometimes we are called to proclaim God’s love even when we are not yet fully able to live it. Does that mean we are hypocrites? Only when our own words no longer call us to conversion. Nobody completely lives up to his or her own ideals and visions. But by proclaiming our ideals and visions with great conviction and great humility, we may gradually grow into the truth we speak. As long as we know that our lives always will speak louder than our words, we can trust that our words will remain humble.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

I won’t marry you,” she repeated.“Why not? You were eager enough to fuck me.”Anna winced. “I do wish you would stop using that word.”Edward swung around and assumed a hideously sarcastic expression. “Would you prefer swive? Tup? Dance the buttock jig?

~ Elizabeth Hoyt

When typography is on point, words become images.

~ Shawn Lukas

The most important legacy you will ever leave is your vision planted in the minds of your disciples and a passion as strong as a storm in their hearts.

~ Shannon L. Alder

how these words, wait to diein the arms of all the poetry..yet to be written.

~ Sanober Khan

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

~ Jenim Dibie

Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.

~ Jenim Dibie

A single fleeting word has the power to make or break a person.

~ Tammy Faith

Sometimes I fear those noisy words boiling in an unsettling cauldron.

~ Pavitraa Parthasarathy

Take it for words. O woman’s poor revenge,Which dwells but in the tongue!

~ John Webster

Alphabet soup is my magic eight ball. Served hot or cold, words are delicious.

~ Amanda Mosher

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

~ Unarine Ramaru

To often we speak just to hear the sound of our own voice, when we should speak only when the words are sweeter than silence.

~ Steven Aitchison

But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.

~ Anne Fadiman

What you've done isn't the only thing that defines who you are. Words are just as powerful as action. They can aspire action in others, can't they?

~ Erica Crouch

Your Words Are Vital, They Rule You And You Rule With Them Therefore, Speak Creative Words Always!

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

In order to understand what happened, we'll use words in the way that they exist: as drawers of distinction between ideas.

~ John Hadac

Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gently. I want to live within the rush of primal, intuitive decision, yet also wish to sit and contemplate. This is the messiness of life - that we all carry multitudes, so must sit with the shifts. We are complicated creatures, and ultimately, the balance comes from this understanding. Be water. Flowing, flexible and soft. Subtly powerful and open. Wild and serene. Able to accept all changes, yet still led by the pull of steady tides. It is enough.

~ Victoria Erickson

Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid. Then we assign a word to a thought and we're stuck with that word for that thought, so be careful with words. I like to think that the same words that hurt can heal. It’s a matter of how you pick them.

~ George Carlin

The best advice anyone has ever given me, was to never take advice from anyone.

~ J.r. Rim

Words flow from love, and speech is likewise confounded by love. It is the sweetest gesture to be without words, and with words, all the same. So too is it with the lighthearted sigh – an outward expression of an abundance of the heart.

~ Zechariah Barrett

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity.

~ Sanober Khan

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

~ William Shakespeare

I read everything in that dusty little library. I read the prologues and the epilogues until I could tell you how many times Stephen King thanked his wife, Tabitha. I could tell you how the Columbia Indians made their long-houses, or how to make a solar toilet, or how to dry bear meat in the sun. I could tell you all of this if I could talk, but instead the words stayed inside of me and marveled. This I could accept, or so I told myself for a long time. Because the words were there, and they carried me to another place.

~ Rene Denfeld

I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.

~ Shannon L. Alder