W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!”
“Words can promise, but only actions can endorse.”
Source: YOU DON’T WANT TO DIE: Life Renews in the Depths of Despair
“Words can reach and help more people than any amount of money can.”
“Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.”
Source: Legends of Our Time
“Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.”
“Words can strengthen the weak, words can rejuvenate the meek - words can breathe life into the dead, words can unite the divided - words can bring smile on the face of the unfortunate, words can encourage the hearts of the desperate – words can alleviate the anguish of humanity, words can sow the seeds of serenity.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“Words can’t harm you when they don’t mean anything to you.”
Source: The Disbelief Habit: How to Use Doubt to Make Peace with Your Inner Critic
“Words can’t imprison Love.”
Source: Just Love Her
“Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.”
“Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.”
“Words can wound, and wounds can heal.”
“Words can't even describe how much Olympic medals means to me, because of all the hard work, sacrifice and effort I put in at the gym, and also because of how much my family supported me and sacrificed their dreams for mine. It also means a lot to me, knowing that I became the first African American to win the individual all-around gold medal.”
“Words can't express what you mean to me.”
“Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.”
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.”
“Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.”
“Words cannot describe how much I miss you. I miss you like the sun misses the moon every night. I feel like we'll always just be orbiting on opposite sides of the earth.”
“Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.”
Source: History of Women Suffrage
“Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.
(Waterstones Trafalgar Square)”
“Words cannot ease the pain you are feeling right now But just wanted to let you know that we are thinking about you And praying for your pain to ease And for you to find sunshine when the dark clouds have passed.”
“Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.”
“Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.”
“Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts.”
“Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye.”
“Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.”
“Words cant explain everything.But silence never fails to mean something”
“Words carry oceans on their small backs.”
Source: The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
“Words carry power and the most powerful words are those uttered by the Lord over your life. Hence, you must pray and have faith, so that you will hear every word God has for you.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers.”
Source: The Language of leadership
“Words challenge eternity.”
Source: Q. Horatii Flacci de Arte Poetica liber ... Horace's treatise concerning the Art of Poetry; together with notes critical, historical, and poetical, by the Earl of Roscommon
“Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment in cattle every time we identified a bonus as a pecuniary advantage (from the Latin pecus , or cattle, a verbal fossil from a former commercial reality).”
Source: The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
“Words combine with ever-widening blood puddles spilled from the suffocating death wounds.”
Source: Prismatic Prose: A Genre Bending Anthology
“Words come to me like equations came to Ramanujan and music came to Mozart.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.”
“Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.”
Source: Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy
“Words could be just as deadly as steel.”
Source: The Assassin's Blade: The Throne of Glass Novellas
“Words could do extraordinary things, but sometimes they are just not enough.”
Source: A Woman Is No Man
“Words could mean nothing or they could change someone for eternity.”
“Words could never express the infinite sadness of a used condom, removed from your already half-limp dick by an expert hand, which then strangles it with a precise, automatic gesture.”
Source: L'obsolescence programmée de nos sentiments
“Words could not express how pleased and touched Dan was by this confidence and praise. No one had ever trusted him before, no one had cared to find out and foster the good in him, and no one had suspected how much there was hidden away in the breast of the neglected boy, going fast to ruin, yet quick to feel and value sympathy and help. No honor that he might earn hereafter would ever be half so precious as the right to teach his few virtues and his small store of learning to the child whom he most respected; and no more powerful restraint could have been imposed upon him than the innocent companion confided to his care.”
Source: Little Men
“Words covered in chocolate won't always leave
sweet thoughts of happiness in your mind. Some may leave a bitter taste on your tongue.”
“Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.”
“Words create. Know what you want to create before you speak”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Words create pictures, and pictures in your mind create words. And then the words come back out your mouth....And when that spiritual force comes out it is going to give substance to the image that's on the inside of you. Aw, that's that visualization stuff! Aw, that's that New Age! No, New Age is trying to do this; and they'd get somewhat results out of it because this is spiritual law, brother.”
“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”
Source: On Writing
“Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.”
“Words created the future, exacerbated problems, raised barriers between them. But in the silence of Ford's sleep, Ford could love Dan easily; in the stillness of Ford's rest, Dan could adore him without question or fear.”
“Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.”
“Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin”