W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.”
“Words and prayers are powerful agreements, and you need to see what kind you are using every day.”
“Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.”
“Words and terms are born out of a need to describe the world. But because the victors, who get to write the history, had little need to describe the fate of the conquered, the words did not exist soon enough to describe and ultimately prevent the wholesale destruction of black communities in America.”
Source: Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
“Words – and the intentions and ideas behind them – had
the power to change physical reality, just like any other physical phenomenon.”
Source: The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion
“Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.”
Source: The Complete Collection (with the book
“Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.”
Source: Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
“Words and thoughts not share via orally or via the written word die with the author for all eternity.”
“Words and thoughts not shared die with the author for all eternity.”
“Words and works eat not at one table.”
Source: Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)
“Words are a big deal to me. I'm verbal and visual and I'm always struggling to find a way to smash those two parts of my cerebral cortex together. Sometimes it works, sometimes it feels mentally disjunctive.”
“words are a border collie’s
worst nightmare.”
Source: love jaywalks
“Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.”
Source: Human Being
“Words are a completely different form of expression. The word P-E-N-I-S is an entirely different form of communication than a photograph of the same thing. H”
“Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.”
“Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.”
Source: COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE
“Words are a form of personal expression. They differentiate us as well as fingerprints do. They reflect what kind of person we are.”
“Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in the world of enlightenment.”
“Words are a landscape of virtue.”
“Words are a lens to focus one's mind.”
“Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason, and in their power to corrode reality inevitably lurks the danger that the words will be corroded too.”
Source: Sun & Steel
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
“Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.”
Source: Foundation Trilogy
“Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.”
“Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.”
“Words are abstraction, break off from the green; words are patterns in the way fences and trenches are. Words hurt. I can hide in words so long as I scatter them through my body; to read your letters is to gather flowers from within myself, pluck a blossom here, a fern there, arrange and rearrange them in ways to suit a sunny room.”
Source: This Is How You Lose the Time War
“Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Words are action, and sentences represent a person’s mental action and aspirations.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“words are alive
they talk to us
words too smile
and dance
they too have life
words cry
when they go deep
they have feelings
and desires too
words are tender
and sensitive too
words understand
when others may not
words are loyal
they will stay with us
words don't leave
unlike us
words are kind
and oving
and caring too
they make us
happy when we
may be sad
words are philosophical
they make us go deep
to understand life
and things that happen
words are our identify
words are for eternity
words make us
who we think we are
and who we become...”
“Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.”
“Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.”
“Words are all we have.”
“Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, second series
“Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.”
Source: Prosperity
“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.”
“Words are an invitation to life, a request to bring energy into form. Choose your words carefully.”
“Words are animals, alive with a will of their own”
“Words are annoying to read...”
Source: Debbie Wants No Words
“Words are as beautiful as wind horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral.”
“Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.”
“Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.”
Source: The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day
“Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.”
Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works
“Words are available for anyone but the author just arranges them in a way it's profitable.”
“Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.”
“Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.”
Source: Ionia: A Quest
“Words are but empty thanks.”
Source: The Plays of Colley Cibber
“Words are but pictures of our thoughts.”
“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.”
Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks