Words Quotes

Your mind is definitely not meant to entertain and shelter any thought that goes against your positive desires. You should always be on guard against all self-defeating thoughts and words.

~ Hafiz

Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.

~ Aaron Sorkin

We say no more on the matter and she asks me to help her find a word, an adjective to qualify something that falls on mankind, although not necessarily something of a meteorological nature, like rain, but a word associated with the apocalypse of the human soul and heart, but not in any direct way, more indirectly, like rain in the soul and nature oozing tears, she explains to me. Something like the smell of a birch tree in the rain, just one word. The obstetrician claims that no word could encompass that much, no single word could ever be that big.

~ Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own--my words are gone.

~ Jennifer Niven

wordslike mysterious mermaids come and live permanentlyin the soft sweepsand scars of my skin.

~ Sanober Khan

I have a sort of . . . thing, I suppose, for certain words. They spark inside me, somehow, turning me to touchpaper, but I don't know what they are until someone says them.

~ Alexis Hall

Kipster is a perfectly valid word,” Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. “Okay, so what does it mean?” Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled to come up with an answer, and finally just changed the subject with school gossip. Mandy found herself just ignoring it… it always sounded the same, the same events, same rumors, same secrets, same affairs, but never anything of interest to her.“Well Sarah’s on drugs again and that’s why she did it in Mario’s backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid’s been cutting himself again so he was sent away to Halifax last week, and there’s a festival in Wolfville but Kathy won’t go because Audrey-Rose is going to be there and they hate each other, and….”Mandy had learned two years ago to detach herself from gossip; she’d learned it from Jud’s death. Wendy may have been eighteen years old but she could be immature on the best of days.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

~ Zhuangzi

The real trouble is this: giving expression to thought by the observable medium of words is like the work of the silkworm. In being made into silk, the material achieves its value. But in the light of day it stiffens; it becomes something alien, no longer malleable. True, we can then more easily and freely recall the same thought, but perhaps we can never experience it again in its original freshness.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

Any punishment is an insult to the crime

~ Nathan Filer

Joy lurks in every mundane thing, just waiting to be found. Love is impervious to reason. And words are wonderful.

~ Anna Lyndsey

It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.

~ Sophocles

I love the way he says my name. With the elegance and utmost respect of a King, just before he bows to his Queen.

~ M.j. Abraham

Crash studied her. Sometimes he seemed to understand her silence better than her words.

~ T.l. Shreffler

There was so much to say that we said nothing.

~ Philip Schuyler Allen

They were the kind of words you read back and every lettered limb surprises you because you never knew you really felt those things the whole time.

~ Hannah Brencher

No one really knows what words mean these days.

~ Mark Doten

Words, one may argue, are such a drag, useless - don't think it too much, just do it. And no - I agree - over-thinking is a curse, but it is without words when I over-think, when I over-burn neurons. With words, things find their place. I've said this to myself a million times.

~ Lange Weile

Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living the example is the best advice you can ever give. Only examples have children.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

Words are cheap but they gain greater worth when they first minister to the speaker of the same.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

And you never fall behind?”“Of course I do. But I always feel guilty when that happens. After all, my journal is the oldest and most loyal friend I have. And it never interrupts me when I’m speaking,” he added, with a boyish grin.

~ Zack Love

It is more blessed to give than to receive”, the Bible advocates. When it comes to advice, I humbly submit that it is more blessed to avail yourself of it, utilise it, apply it yourself, before you give it. Put it to use first before suggesting it to someone else.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

i would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings.

~ Sanober Khan

Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.

~ Rick Yancey

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.

~ Lily King

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.

~ Paul Morabito

I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.

~ Lauren Oliver

Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Speak so polite with people that your ill wishers become your well wishers.

~ Raaz Ojha

The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The integrity of our relationships matters more than the boldness of our words.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.

~ Charles M. Blow

A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech, he will measure every word.

~ Hafiz

If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

~ Lenore Kandel

And so we must dig in to see where raw words and fundamental sounds are buried so that the great silence within can finally be decoded.

~ Raymond Federman

Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

You will never have confidence in your prayers if you fail to be prudent with your words.

~ Neil Kennedy

When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A depth returns to your life. Things regain their newness, their freshness. And the greatest miracle is the experiencing of your essential self as prior to any words, thoughts, mental labels and images.

~ Eckhart Tolle