Words Quotes

If we wander around as politicians jumping at every shadow and desperately afraid of having our words taken out of context or attacks layered on in an unfair way, I think we're actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to people's intelligence.

~ Justin Trudeau

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.

~ James Fenton

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

~ Jerry Cantrell

November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude.

~ Deborah Sampson

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

~ Michael Graves

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

~ Flora Lewis

The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.

~ Robyn Davidson

I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

~ Patricia Polacco

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

~ Jonathan Swift

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

~ Alice Miller

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

~ Unknown

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

~ Dwight L. Moody

I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice - in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion.

~ Rich Cohen

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

~ Erykah Badu

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

~ Thomas Jefferson

It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

~ Yehuda Berg

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

~ Eddie Izzard

There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.

~ Jared Padalecki

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

~ Hugh Hefner

It's always best to ask for forgiveness if you feel that you made a mistake. And again, asking for forgiveness is not just saying the words 'I'm sorry'; it is also offering what you need to do.

~ Grace Poe

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

~ Thomas Sowell

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

~ Winston Churchill

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

~ Chief Joseph

I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

~ John Bradshaw

Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.

~ Shari Arison

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

~ Ann Hood

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.

~ William Shakespeare

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

~ Pope Francis

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

~ Paul Valéry

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.

~ Kerry Washington

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

~ Hillary Clinton

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

~ Amy Tan

Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.'

~ Bill Burr

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

~ Graham Swift

Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.

~ James Blunt

I do appreciate the '80s as an era, the general sounds and aesthetics of the era. The Cure, that whole kind of image is really kind of amazing, I think. The power ballads and how everything sparkles and words are really dramatic. Huge drums, things like that. I do really find it inspiring.

~ Charli Xcx

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

~ Muhammad Iqbal