W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.”
“Words are like razor blades: it hurts you, but it also changes the looks on your face.”
“Words are like seconds,
You will never get them back
Once they have come forth and left.”
Source: Legacy
“Words are like seeds; what you plant in your mind grows and shapes your reality.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“Words are like souls. Soundless, even shapeless. But full of substance.”
Source: The Smallest Part
“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”
Source: The Last Slice of Rainbow: And Other Stories
“Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three or four that suddenly come out, simple in themselves, a personal pronoun, an adverb, an adjective, we have the excitement of seeing them coming irresistibly to the surface through the skin and the eyes and upsetting the composure of our feelings, sometimes the nerves that can not bear it any longer, they put up with a great deal, they put up with everything, it was as if they were wearing armor, we might say.”
“Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.”
“Words are like water: once they have escaped one’s mouth, they’re spilled onto the floor. Words are like knives, leaving invisible wounds that continue to bleed.”
Source: The Mountains Sing
“Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.”
“Words are living force. The words you use create your life.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Words are loaded pistols.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“Words are loneliness.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“Words are lost, time passes, people are forgotten. All that remains is a ripple in time.”
“Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.”
Source: A Night of Serious Drinking
“Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.”
Source: Words and their meanings
“Words are memes that can be pronounced.”
Source: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
“Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.”
“Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.”
“Words are mere tools of the mind”
“Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing. In fact, you place so little value on experience that when what your experience of God differs from what you've heard of God, you automatically discard the experience and own the words, when it should be just the other way around.”
“Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.”
Source: Legends and lyrics: a book of verses
“Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of . . . words.”
“Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.”
Source: The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel
“Words are more dangerous than swords and guns. They reach further and hurt deeper.”
“Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.”
Source: I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography
“Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.”
“Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.”
“Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.”
“Words are music, really.”
“Words are my bullets!”
“Words are my leisure,
Words are my life.
Words are my gift to thee,
Use 'em wisely for light.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Words are my medicine. They heal my soul.”
“Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.”
“Words are my weapons. They might kill or cure the readers, that’s out of my control.”
“Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.”
“Words are naughty little sprites, each not of much consequence on its own. Strung together, they infuse life in an inert image in our mind metamorphosing it into a thought that can fly and flow, invoke mirth and laughter or hit and hurt.”
“Words are nets through which all truth escapes.”
“Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.”
Source: First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
“Words are never frail. They have all the powers to change the personality and features of a man. The way he relates and depicts the things are based on the words he discovers. At one point where words portray happiness for someone, it also counts for the tears to some. The day we comprehend the strength of words, we would choose them more closely and patiently. Where we would prefer silence more over words. If words are our strength, they are our weakness too.”
Source: The Papery Onions
“Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!”
“Words are never merely sounds. They become echoes that linger long after they’re spoken—touching hearts, shaping minds, and leaving imprints that endure. Choose your words wisely.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.”
“Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883
“Words are not brains, you know.”
Source: The Return Of Merlin
“Words are not enough to express my feelings for you. But all I can tell you is that a part of me dies each time you go faraway from me.”
“Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.”
“Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.”
“Words are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, then do they really say something? Or do they say nothing? People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any difference, or isn't there? What does the Way rely upon, that we have true and false? What do words rely upon, that we have right and wrong? How can the Way go away and not exist? How can words exist and not be acceptable? When the Way relies on little accomplishments and words reply on vain show, then we have rights and wrongs of the Confucians and the Mo-ists. What one calls right the other calls wrong; what one calls wrong the other calls right. But if we want to right their wrongs and wrong their rights, then the best to use is clarity.”
Source: Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings