W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”
“Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.”
“Words are not only a clumsy and ambiguous means of communication, they are extraordinarily slow.”
Source: How Children Learn
“Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.”
Source: The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand
“Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.”
Source: Letters to Alice
“Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.”
“Words are not the answer. Only the feelings you as an individual get from them are.”
“Words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins.”
Source: After: Poems
“Words are not the only way we communicate, you and I. They never were.”
Source: The Duke of Shadows
“Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.”
“Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon?”
“Words are not yet deeds”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.”
“Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.”
“Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?”
Source: Leigh Hunt: Selected Writings
“Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.”
Source: The word-a-day vocabulary builder
“Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction.”
“Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.”
Source: Works
“Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.”
“Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.”
“Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap”
“Words are only words, until they hit the heart.”
“Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.”
“words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.”
“Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.”
“Words are partly thoughts, but mostly they’re music, deep down. Thinking itself is, perhaps, orchestral, the mind conducting the world. Conducting it, constructing it.”
Source: The Art of the Wasted Day
“Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.”
“Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.”
“Words are potent. They can build bridges or burn them, heal wounds or deepen them, inspire action or sow doubt. We often underestimate the impact of what we say... A casual remark intended as a joke may linger in someone’s mind as a cutting critique. A sincere compliment might buoy someone through a hard day”
“Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.”
“Words are power. Do not speak these words again. Not in front of me.”
Source: Willow
“Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.”
“Words are powerful, but so are you.”
“Words are powerful, but truly strong relationships are not shaken by the spoken words, for the words in the heart are heard loud and clear, despite the temperamental poor choice of the word uttered.”
“Words
are powerful
forces of nature.
they are destruction.
they are nourishment.
they are flesh.
they are water.
they are flowers
and bone.
they burn. they cleanse
they erase. they etch.
they can either
leave you
feeling
homeless
or brimming
with home.”
“Words are powerful seeds. If you plant them for good, they will bloom beautifully.”
“Words are powerful. The passion you speak them with is also powerful. Choose wisely. Words that injure have a funny way of coming back to you.”
“Words are powerful vibrations, use words to uplift your spirits and heal yourself.”
“Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. … All those things.”
Source: The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems Of R.M. Engelhardt 1989-2006
“Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.”
“Words are precious.
Deeds are plentiful.
But actions speaks with authority of power.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.”
“Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“Words are prophesy. Prophesy positive words into your life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Words are real. Even if you can't see them, or hold them. Once you send them out in the world, they have power. Never speak words you don't mean.”
Source: Play dead
“Words are really a mask,' he said. 'They rarely express the true meaning; in fact they tend to hide it. If you can live in fantasy, then you don't need religion, since with fantasy you can understand that after death, man is reincorporated in the Universe. Once again I will say that it is not important to know whether there is something beyond this life. What counts is having done the right sort of work; if that is right, then everything else will be all right. The Universe, or Nature, is for me what God is for others. It is wrong to think that Nature is the enemy of man, something to be conquered. Rather, we should look upon Nature as a mother, and should peaceably surrender ourselves to it. If we take that attitude, we will simply feel that we are returning to the Universe as all other things do, all animals and plants. We are all just infinitesimal parts of the Whole. It is absurd to rebel; we must deliver ourselves up to the great current....”
Source: C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Book of Two Friendships
“Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.”