W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
“Words derive their power from the original word.”
Source: Meister Eckhart
“Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.”
“Words did not need to be spoken to feel the
trepidation and fear that pervaded the atmosphere.”
Source: Once I Knew
“Words didn’t come. I couldn’t formulate a thought. I was too startled. These three figures lying in the sand in front of me weren’t surfers at all.
They weren’t even people.
From their facial features and upper torsos, they looked kind of like women, but all three of them had silver-colored skin. They were bald, with strange ridges marking their skulls. None of them seemed to have ears, only holes in the sides of their heads. No nose was visible, not even a bone or nostrils filled that space between their eyes and mouths. Although their mouths seemed to be moving, they were actually breathing through what looked like gills in their necks.
And if that wasn’t weird enough, instead of legs, their upper torsos stretched out into long, scale-covered, silver fishtails. If I had to say what these things stranded in front of me, splattered with oil, appeared to be, I’d say mermaids. And no, they didn’t look like they’d start singing songs or granting me wishes. They looked a little bit scary—but fragile too. Most of all, they looked like they were going to die, and no handsome prince was there to kiss them and keep them from turning into sea foam.”
Source: Cry of the Sea
“Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.”
Source: Pascal's Pensées
“Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Words divide, pictures unite.”
Source: Empiricism and sociology
“Words divorced from action supporting them are meaningless and hypocritical.”
“Words do contain power. They retain the power of the spirit that whispered them—whatever spirit that was. And when they are read, or spoken, or lived out, the power of that spirit is unleashed in the world.”
“Words do have purpose; they are essential clues in determining actions, or lack thereof.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“words do matter. They’re not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn’t start revolutions and they wouldn’t change history and they wouldn’t be the things that you think about every night before you go to sleep. If they were just words we wouldn’t listen to songs,”
Source: Words in Deep Blue
“Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.”
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.”
“Words do not pay for my dead people.”
“Words do not solve problems, actions do.”
“Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”
“Words don't come easily.”
“Words don't get lost in translation, they get remixed. Just watch what happens to this quote.”
“Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.”
“Words don't impress me anymore, effort does. It truly shows that you genuinely care. In a world full of half-hearted talk and texts, even small, kind gestures go a long way. Effort is everything!”
“Words don't means; people means.”
“Words don't change children's lives. Real action by the government and equality would.”
“Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe.”
Source: Summer rain
“Words don't come easily, like forgive me.”
“Words don't heal. Art heals!”
“Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.”
Source: Downsiders
“Words don't mean, people mean.”
“Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.”
“Words drop from my lips spiraling downward; they land scattered on your ears. I spoke them green and golden, but you turned them shriveled brown.”
“Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.”
Source: The Riches of Bunyan
“Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.”
Source: An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field
“Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free.”
Source: An Unspoken Hunger
“Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.”
Source: Woven in Moonlight
“Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.”
“Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present.”
“Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.”
“Words - especially written ones, meant only for us - have a power to comfort, tell truths, and communicate profound emotions in a way that few things can.”
Source: Every Breath
“Words. Ever since chisel was taken to slate, it has been accepted that words can and do change the world.”
Source: 100 Photographs That Changed the World
“Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.”
“Words exist in the smile on your face, the life in your eyes, the passion in your soul, and those beautiful and open enough to recognize it. THAT is a writers haven …”
“Words express neither objects nor ourselves.”
“Words express only the feelings we know already.”
Source: Catherine-Paris
“Words express our thoughts. Thoughts shape our feelings. Feelings influence our perceptions. Perception becomes our truth”
“Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.”
Source: A Gathering Light
“Words fail me. We have far more words to describe unpleasant emotional states than pleasant ones. (And this is the case with all languages, not just English.) If we're not happy, we have a smorgasbord of words to choose from. We can say we're feeling down, blue, miserable, sullen, gloomy, dejected, morose, despondent, in the dumps, out of sorts, long in the face. But if we're happy that smorgasbord is reduced to the salad bar at Pizza Hut. We might say we're elated or content or blissful. These words, though, don't capture the shades of happiness.
We need a new word to describe Swiss happiness. Something more than mere contnetmnet but less than full-on joy. 'Conjoyment,' perhaps. Yes, that's what the Swiss possess: utter conjoyment. We could use this word to describe all kinds of situations where we feel joy yet calm at the same time.”
“Words fail to describe
what i feel anymore.
Let me be numb for a while,
let me be sore.”
“Words fail, there are times when even they fail.”
Source: Happy Days: A Play in Two Acts