W Quotes
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“Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.”
“Words are women, deeds are men.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations
“Words are words. Dropping an f-bomb wouldn't make me an idiot any more than saying "sesquipedalian" makes someone intelligent.
Both those words can easily make someone sound like a real douche bag, though.”
Source: Letters to the Lost
“Words are words. People add meaning to words.
Information is information. With words people add value to information.
Words breathe life into information. Words move mountains of information.
Words are action. Momentum for living evolves from pursuit of deeper, wider and higher significance, utility and value of words.
Words we sow, nourish and harvest feed hungry minds and hearts. Gathered words strengthen, ignite and release us.
Words identify, signify and proclaim our individuality. Words pronounce a purposeful life’s choices.
With wisdom, courage and patience we must choose high-performing words for long-term relationships. Chosen words become soul mates.”
Source: We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere
“Words are words, but the way an actor says them, the way it's framed, puts you either in the world that looks a lot like ours or one that doesn't seem a lot like ours, one that can be farcical or one that can't.”
“Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works.”
“Words are worthless. How can you describe the other worlds?”
“Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.”
Source: Juneteenth: A Novel
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
“Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.”
Source: Dead Man's Island
“Words aren't hurting anybody. Words are not causing any damage, not expressly and not directly. But we're so focused on the words.”
“Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more
“Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.”
Source: A Country Calendar, and Other Writings
“Words at night were feral things.”
Source: The Visiting Privilege
“Words
Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous we do our best,
sometimes they swarm like insects
and leave not a sting but a kiss.
They can be as good as fingers.
They can be as trusty as the rock
you stick your bottom on.
But they can be both daisies and bruises.
Yet I am in love with words.
They are doves falling out of the ceiling.
They are six holy oranges sitting in my lap.
They are the trees, the legs of summer,
and the sun, its passionate face.
Yet often they fail me.
I have so much I want to say,
so many stories, images, proverbs, etc.
But the words aren't good enough,
the wrong ones kiss me.
Sometimes I fly like an eagle
but with the wings of a wren.
But I try to take care
and be gentle to them.
Words and eggs must be handled with care.
Once broken they are impossible
things to repair.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“Words become a story and a story becomes a novel that feeds the reader's soul" - CC. Carpenter xo”
“Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.”
Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam
“Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.”
Source: The Liam Devlin Novels: The Eagle Has Landed, Touch the Devil, and Confessional
“Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . "
Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In”
“Words become, 'product', so that it is as though you'd bought a 'hand-cooked' packet of crisps; there are different makes, various flavours, but in the end, they're all rather similar and while eating them while sipping white wine makes you feel posher than if you'd bought the bog-standard ones, afterwards you don't remember very much about them.”
“Words began fights and words ended them.”
Source: The Yearling
“Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.”
“Words belong to each other.”
Source: Selected essays
“Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.”
“Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.”
Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
“Words belonging to a legacy that now, she knew, she had no choice but to face. “Because we’ll be Cike. And the first rule of the Cike is that we cull.”
Source: The Burning God
“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings. Example: the Chinese pictogram for ‘integrity’ is a two-part symbol of a man literally standing next to his word. So far, so good. But what does the Late English word ‘honesty’ mean? Or ‘Motherland’? Or ‘progress’? Or ‘democracy’? Or ‘beauty’? But even in our self-deception, we become gods.”
Source: Hyperion
“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.”
Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
“Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.”
Source: I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story
“Words between them would have been as hollow as a bell without a striker.”
Source: Hand of Belenos
“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson: With critical and explanatory notes and a memoir by William Gifford. Volume 2
“Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)
“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“Words build bridges into unexplored regions.”
“Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface,
The core and the surface
Are essentially the same,
Words making them seem different . . .”
Source: The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters
“Words came to her from outside of memory; they fluttered against her heart like a rush of wings and soared from her voice in a song she'd never known. A song she'd always known. She hummed the incantation, and the force of magic behind it erupted in a crescendo through her blood. Every cell in her body vibrated with pure joy. I have lived this before. This is my destiny. I am Zyne.”
Source: Rain of Ash
“Words can be a powerful tool that helps others recover from their brokenness. Use them in a way that grants comfort and strength. Let the words you speak bring healing and peace.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can be the same.”
“Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel.”
“Words can be as tricky as a sneaky magician pulling tricks out of their linguistic hats. But you, my witty friend, you've got the magic decoder ring for patterns! So, let those words try their verbal acrobatics while you're on the lookout for the real patterns that spill the secrets of truth. It's like watching a linguistic circus, and you're the ringmaster of wit!”
“Words can be conquered, but silence is invincible!”
“Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct”
“Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to explain this God of ours or articulate our experience of Him, we will have brutally destroyed the very things we are attempting to explain. And if I should do that, no words can describe how badly I wish I had no words.”
“Words can be like a butterfly effect.”
“Words can be like swords, cutting deep, not into the flesh but into the tender heart. The time will come, my young friend, when you will gaze upon the still form of one you loved, and you will regret with tears and sighs the harsh words you have spoken. Do not lay up for yourself sorrow for that time.”
Source: Beautiful Girlhood
“Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something - and so little effort of so few to tear it down.”
Source: The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman