WORDS QUOTES III

quotations about words


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A man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.

ROBERT PENN WARREN
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A Place To Come To


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What so wild as words are?

ROBERT BROWNING

A Woman's Last Word

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When we think, our thoughts are in the form of words, so authorities must never be permitted to outlaw or edit our thinking by redefining or outlawing our words.

JONATHAN HOFFMAN

"Words are thoughts; protect them", Arizona Daily Star, March 11, 2017


A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

CHARLES DICKENS

Bleak House

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Of what use are good words to an evil heart?

LOUIS BECKE

"Solepa", By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore and Other Stories

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Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Conversations with God

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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

Death with Interruptions

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The words we speak have such power, and we have the power to choose them wisely.

BARBARA WALSH

"Choosing our words wisely for encouragement", Deming Headlight, January 28, 2016


Words are sometimes signs of ideas; sometimes of the want of them.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

GOETHE

Faust

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Words are never "only words"; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

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The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.

NEAL ASCHERSON

"Chords of Identity in a Minor Key", Games with Shadows

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Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

FRANK HERBERT

God Emperor of Dune


When you doubt between two words, choose the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge: love simple ones, as you would native roses on your cheeks.

JULIUS CHARLES HARE

Guesses at Truth


Word -- that invisible dagger.

EMIL CIORAN

History & Utopia


Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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The words of God are deeds.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

November

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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

DON DELILLO

Point Omega


Words carried weight, some more than others, and it seemed to him that once you'd arranged them into phrases they stayed that way like bricks you'd laid in a wall and went on meaning what they said no matter what happened.

WILLIAM GAY

Provinces of Night

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