W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.”
“Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action”
“Words should not be used merely because they are 'old' or obsolete. The words chosen, however remote they may be from colloquial speech or ephemeral suggestions, must be words that remain in literary use, especially in the use of verse, among educated people. (To such Beowulf was addressed, into whatever hands it may since have fallen.) They must need no gloss. The fact that a word was still used by Chaucer, or by Shakespeare, or even later, gives it no claim, if it has in our time perished from literary use.”
Source: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
“Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.”
“Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.”
“Words shouldn't be allowed to change meanings. Who decides that the meaning has changed, and when? Is there an in-between time when word means both things. Or a time when the word doesn't mean anything at all?”
Source: The Sun Is Also a Star
“Words shouldn’t be dirty or clean
But definitely sweet,
On the tongue, in the mind.”
Source: Finding Baba Yaga
“Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.”
“Words sing and dance too!”
“Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.”
Source: The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission
“Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence.”
“words speak louder than music, but music will deafen the listener.”
“Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted.”
“Words spoken by kind people have the ability to endure in our lives.”
Source: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“Words spoken by two people in any relationship are so predictable. Countless people are saying the same sentences, word by word. It's all so stale. Only silence is new every moment.”
“Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.”
“Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.”
Source: He Knew He was Right
“Words spoken from spite corrode hearts, especially for the one talking.”
“Words spoken from your heart,
thoughts shared from your soul,
integrity in your mind's behaviour
shall be remembered for eternity”
“Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.”
Source: Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
“Words spoken today that are not needed now must be kept till they will be needed”
“Words stagnate when a person's mind becomes a dam of tainted lies.”
“Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality.”
“Words stick, even when we don't want them to.”
Source: Out of Reach
“Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.”
“Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.”
“Words streamed from my mouth, some familiar, some not.
The last of the were, "I love you."
He rose up off me with a grin. "If I'd known it was that easy to get you to admit how you feel, I would have done this a long time ago.”
Source: Losing It
“Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul.”
Source: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
“Words such as kindness, wellness, green, united, world, peace, have all been hijacked by bad people. If you hear these words, run for the hills.”
“Words suggest like's intentions. Actions demonstrate love's conviction.”
“Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.”
“Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know that everything I need is already contained within me and is completely aceessible if I allow myself to open up to what I sense is true for me...and the same is true for you.”
“Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.”
“Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief.”
Source: Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen
“Words that are put in other people’s mouths are never fit for consumption.”
“Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.”
Source: Language and Silence
“Words that are spoken are not TRUE,
Feelings alone speak the TRUTH.”
“Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.”
“Words that cause a smile. A look of complete contentment and security. The comfort in certain acts - easy ones, like holding someone's hand.”
Source: The Rebel
“Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.”
“Words that do not create images should be discarded.”
“Words that do not match deeds are not important.”
“Words that I never told you (english-español)
Only those who have been slaves know that in the incense smoke there are tigers.
Only the one who has cleaned himself is free to forget them.
That is your greatness.
A fierce thread.”
“Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice”
“Words that make questions may not be questions at all.”
“Words that may be firm in information can be soft in spirit.”
“Words that should cross your lips with ease: thank you, love you, sorry, please.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Words that you use determine and control what happens in life.”
Source: Life Is Simply A Game
“Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises”
Source: Waiting for the Boat: On Television
“Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.”