W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Words may deceive; actions never do. Words may hide what actions reveal; actions reveal what words hide.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.”
“Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still.”
Source: Light Arising: Thoughts on the Central Radiance
“Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that is really important... like God, for instance, or Love, or what is true about another.”
“Words may inspire, but it is the hands that work diligently to solve problems that truly bring about meaningful change.”
“Words may inspire but only action creates change.”
“Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.”
“Words may move, but they're never moving fast enough.”
“Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.”
Source: The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself. Now First Edited from Original Manuscripts and from His Printed Correspondence and Other Writings
“Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.”
“Words mean nothing, if you don't do something to give them meaning. - The Malwatch”
“Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then act indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago.”
“Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.”
Source: Bloodline: Five Stories
“Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.”
“Words might only be said once, but the hearing lasts forever.”
“Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.”
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
“Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.”
“Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.”
Source: The works of ... Richard Hooker. To which is prefixed the life of the author, by I. Walton
“Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.”
“Words never fade away but echo on for eternity. Let your echo ring sweet.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Words never mean a thing if you don't know the lack of them,
or sounds,
or laughter,
and it's the small moments of silence I value the most.”
Source: You're Doing Just Fine
“Words never mean what we want them to mean.”
“Words never passed between us, only a nod and a silent smirk as he overtook me.
Which was problematic today. It was cold, and pissing rain, and I wasn't in the mood to slow my pace and let him get ahead of me.
Sure, it made him feel all manly and superior, but a girl has to draw the line somewhere. There are times to pander to the male ego and times to force them to watch your arse as you surpass them.”
Source: Bane
“Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".”
Source: Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents
“Words not kept break more than a promise.”
“Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.”
Source: The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
“Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life.”
Source: Glory
“Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.”
“Words of an old soul's heart,
Portrayal of the matrix art
To break from the illusion
Of your continuous delusion
No chapter good or bad,
Not happy, neither sad.
Attachement to desire,
The heart sparks inner fire.”
“Words of any importance, of any real worth, appear on a page, not screen.”
Source: In Limbo
“Words of character can be heard light-years away, even if they are whispered.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.”
Source: My Life in Court
“Words of creator are enciphered in genetic codes.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion.”
Source: Juneteenth
“Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.”
“Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.”
“Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn, and grow.”
“Words of hate are the sword that the person of principle never pulls from the scabbard of anger.”
“Words of love are works of love.”
“Words of love you whisper soft and true
Darling I love you”
“Words of others, helps weave our feathers.”
“Words of others may cut or uplift. It is your choice to give them that strength.”
“Words of our hearts have their own dictionary”
“Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Words of sincere felt in heart and trigger smile.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Words of sorrow in head, painting love faith and trust pitch black; aching breaking cutting heart, blood-red!”
“Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.”
Source: The Jargon of Authenticity