Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.
Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent...
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Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the...
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
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