W Quotes
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“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”
“Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.”
“Words are but the signs of ideas.”
“Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.”
Source: Sister Carrie
“Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.”
Source: A Tale of a Tub: The Battle of the Books ; The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit
“Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.”
“Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.”
“Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.”
“Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.”
“Words are cheap, Actions are priceless. If you don't like what's happening set something else into motion.”
Source: Never Been Kissed
“Words are cheap. Words are meaningless. And yet I know there is value in them, when they are sincere.”
Source: Marriage Behind the Facade
“Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is "elephant".”
“Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!”
“Words are clothes that thoughts wear”
“Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.”
Source: In the Heart of the Country: A Novel
“Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.”
Source: Beatrice and Virgil
“Words are contact with other beings. I see a word that says something I've noticed, seen, felt, obserevd, and I capture it; "I need that word!"”
“Words are containers for power”
Source: Conflict Free Living
“Words are dangerous. Hitler didn't gas a single Jew, but his words gassed millions.”
“Words are dangerous things.”
“Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.”
“Words are dead, until action brings them life.”
“Words are debatable, but silence — invincible !”
“Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.”
“Words are defiant in silence.”
“Words are delicate instruments: How to use them so that, after having read the poem, the taste remaining is not of the words themselves, but of a thought, a situation, a parallel reality? If not used appropriately, words in poetry are like the ugly remains of food after eating. What I mean is that readers will reject words if they don't serve to shift attention from themselves to somewhere else.”
“Words are difficult and photography takes the words away from things. It's difficult to talk about something that seems to come very naturally to you, to explain a process. A moment is really difficult to put on paper.”
“Words are directed to your personalities namely; - God, your hearers, devil and yourself.”
Source: The Prince and the Pauper
“Words are divine force.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.”
Source: Styxx
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
Source: The Wisdom and Genius of Shakspeare; comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character, paintings of nature and the passions, and miscellaneous pieces ... With ... notes, and Scriptural references ... by the Rev. T. Price
“Words are easy. It's convincing the heart that's hard.”
Source: Inside: Inside Out\Outside In
“Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.”
“Words are enough for a good man but a good beating for an ass. Water is enough for a teetotaler but a strong drink for a drinker.”
“Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.”
“Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.”
Source: The Mime Order
“Words are felt bodily presences. They take up residence in our connective tissue, in the inner sanctum of our cells and the rapid fire of neurons. They await our grasp and their play upon the page. They await our writing, our consideration and gaze. They want to be touched by writing and partake in one form becoming another form, a flesh body shedding a skin for a text body.”
Source: Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice
“Words are feminine; deeds are masculine.”
“Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.”
“Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.”
Source: Nature
“Words are foolish. Promises are useless. Anyone can say anything to get what it is they desire. Believe in actions and actions alone.”
Source: Flame in the Mist
“Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.”
“Words are for those with promises to keep.”
“Words are forces of life.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Words are fossilized butterfly wings,
pretty to look at sometimes,
but only good for Museums.
I want to miserably burn down the Museums.”
“Words are free. It does not mean you should abuse them. Be kind with them. They will mirror your actions.”
“Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.”
Source: The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World
“Words are God’s gift to mend a broken soul.”
Source: Muses of Wandering Passions
“Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin: A Novel