W Quotes
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“Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.”
“Words, when they've been captured and imprisoned on paper, become a barrier against the world, one best left unerected. Everything that happens is fluid, changeable. After they've passed, events are only as your memory makes them, and they shift shapes over time. Writing a thing down fixes it in place as surely as a rattlesnake skin strippd from the meat and stretched and tacked to a barn wall. Every bit as stationary, and every bit as false to the original thing. Flat and still and harmless.”
“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“Words whipped around me, faster than I could catch 'em.”
Source: Book of Birds
“Words will always make more sense to the writer than the reader. It just means that, even though the reader may have suffered, they haven’t suffered like the writer.”
Source: Sempiternal
“Words will be just words till you bring them to life”
“Words will build no walls.”
Source: Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek
“Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.”
“Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.”
“Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.”
“Words
will
scratch
more
hearts
than
swords.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“Words will surely prove inadequate for the purposes of sharing the ponderings and feelings of my heart and Soul, however, words are all I have at this moment.”
“Words with a heartbeat is poetic”
“Words without a heartbeat are just great words”
“Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.”
“Words, without action, do not hold any weight. Be more intentional about how you show up for others. Especially your partner.”
“Words without action mean nothing. I’ll show you.”
Source: Beauty Awakened
“Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.”
“Words without deeds are worthless.”
“Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.”
“Words without experience are meaningless.”
Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
“Words. Words had the power of exactly, precisely nothing. Hand grenades blow shit up. They meant something when they landed next to you. Words meant someone was talking, nothing more.”
Source: Finding Time
“Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head, warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.”
Source: The World's Wife
“Words, words, words. Whereas one needs deeds!”
“Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them.”
“Words would just jump out of my mouth before I even realized what I was thinking.
I was told in no uncertain terms that this was not the way we treated our elders, or anyone for that matter. Our culture is about the respect for everything around us. At that time, they didn’t realize I had Tourette’s.”
Source: The Light of Winter
“Words wound deeper; choose wisely.”
Source: Krishna Crux
“Words writ in waters.”
Source: Comedies and Tragedies: Now First Collected with Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author
“Words writers choose are a glimmering reflection into our souls.”
Source: Destiny's Gate
“Words writers choose are like a glimmering reflection into our souls.”
Source: Destiny's Gate
“Words, yes, they are but words. I agree, actions do speak louder than words alone. Though, without words, who
would take any action? So how can the pen be mightier than the sword. Because you need a pen to sign a peace
accord not a sword. You need a pen to write a loved one, when they cannot be near. Words, yes, they are but
words.”
Source: The Poet
“Words you speak have power – when you share positivity about yourself in the universe, it gives you back what you say. And, always be generous and kind to those you meet for you might entertain an angel of help unawares.”
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”
“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.”
Source: Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels [Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, etc.] (Book House)
“Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger”
Source: Guardians of Ga'Hoole #12: The Golden Tree
“Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.”
“Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.”
“Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.”
Source: Second Glance: A Novel
“Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.”
“Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.”
Source: Patricia McKillip SF Gateway Omnibus Volume One: In the Forests of Serre, Alphabet of Thorn, The Bell at Sealey Head
“Words, how little they mean when they are too late.”
“Words, however, are things.”
“Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.”
“Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.”
Source: The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary
“Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.”
“Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.”
Source: In This Our Life
“Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.”
Source: The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire