W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Words are good servants but bad masters.”
“Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.”
“Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.”
Source: Twelfth Night (Sparklesoup Classics)
“Words are healers of the sick tempered.”
Source: Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene
“Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.”
“Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.”
“Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.”
“Words are how we think; stories are how we link.”
“Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious.”
Source: Read for Your Life #19
“Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious. They are like water, which gives life and growth and refreshment, but because it has always been abundant, we treat it cheaply. We waste it; we pollute it, and doctor it. Later we blame the quality of the water because we have misused it.”
“Words are immortal - Elinor”
“Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.”
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic”
Source: "Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince": Glow in the Dark Sticker Book
“Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.”
“Words are inadequate when they highlight your experience in language.”
“Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency that, well spent, returns ever greater riches.”
Source: The Address Book: Our Place in the Scheme of Things
“Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.”
Source: Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses
“Words are just like seasons. Sometimes they arrive early, sometimes they wait. There’s no need to force them.”
Source: The Season of Words: 1.1-1.2
“Words are just rules and regulations to me.”
“Words are just whispers until a reader brings them to life. Thank you for breathing life into my stories.”
“Words are just words,
Who they come from gives them Relevance,
And this Relevance gives them the Power to
Hurt you.
Make those who Hurt you Irrelevant.”
“Words are just words.”
Source: As Nasty As They Wanna Be: The Uncensored Story of Luther Campbell of the 2 Live Crew
“Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.”
“Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.”
“Words are life. Carefully choose your words.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Words are life. Positive words create positive life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Words are life.
We are our words.
Choose your words carefully.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Words are like a pebble, and the heart is like a river.
What happens when a pebble is thrown into a river? It causes a ripple.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“Words are like a telescope. They help you see the things you want to see, but they leave you blind to everything else”
Source: The Cat Who Saved Books
“Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah”
“Words are like bodies; meanings are like souls.”
“Words are like bullets, once they’re fired, they never come back.”
“Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships”
“Words are like clay. You can have them however you want and mould them in whichever way you like, but let your words be filled with hope and love.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.”
“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You can't ever put the pieces back together after they hit home.”
Source: Hard Candy
“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.”
“Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.”
“Words are like food. They contain information that either releases and liberates and creates possibilities and development or locks you into unhealthy patterns you can’t change.”
Source: 10 Years Younger in 10 Weeks
“Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me.”
“Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.”
“Words are like knives... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.”
“Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.”
“Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.”
Source: Poetical works
“Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed.”
“Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
“Words are like needles that may prick someone's heart with ease”
“words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.”
Source: Change of Heart: A Novel
“Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.”
Source: Take Me There