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Quotes About Words

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.
~ Bentley Little
One can't measure the life with its bitterness but with it's sweetness and sweetness is what one must find in Jesus Words
~ Aftab Alam
the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
~ Anita Shreve
I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
~ Ann Voskamp
I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
~ Ann Voskamp
Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
~ Billy Joel
I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Edward George Bulwer Lytton
~ Laws die. Books never.
O Gracious and Loving God,   the ancients believed that writing   is a sacred gift from you. Send me the gift of words   so that I can say what must be said   in a way that will cause as little pain as possible. Inspire me with your wisdom   and guide my hand as I write.
~ Edward Hays
You ain't gonna organize no churches.'" My
~ Edward Klein
in one of those moods, it is not the time for introspection. Beware the preacher because he is beguiling. Because you're intelligent and you like words, and you grew up in a strict moral framework, when you hear arguments mounted against you you can hardly resist answering back. But once you join in, the preacher has you. You cannot win. The preacher will always have the last word. In those moods, you can never stare him down.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
People, I have learned, have a way of taking root in one's still-developing mind without our knowing it, especially people, like [James] Baldwin, who live in the world of words.
~ Edward P. Jones
She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: 'Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
All grammars leak.
~ Edward Sapir
awakening' drinkers to their optimum creative moments…to be intoxicated is to be inspired."10 It is not uncommon for ancient Chinese poets to have entire series of poems under the rubric, "Written While Drunk," including this one from the Zhang Yue (667 to 730): Once drunk, my delight knows no limits— Even better than before I'm drunk. My movements, my expressions, all turn into dance, And every word out of my mouth turns into a poem!11
~ Edward Slingerland
A sober dress and makeup beautify the outlook; similarly, sweet and lovely words dignify conduct and character since that, illuminates and embellishes the success and respect of life.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Face makeup and sober dress exhibit beauty and attraction; similarly, words' makeup, how its usage takes place, and how one employs that, in a sentence; it shows an impact and authentication.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Generally, doctors diagnose the body diseases, and for that, one pays money; conversely, on several occasions, words diagnose a mental sickness, and for that, one pays its respect.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Love is not in words; it is in the heart; it beats with the heartbeats.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Love, speaks in your words; sights with your eyes; grows on your conduct; finally, resides in your heart, becoming your heartbeat.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Meaning, beauty, and pathos of words describe and speak its quality itself and touch the sensitive hearts and minds without hindrances.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
One can feel one's garbage of mind smell, from its indecent words since, within its reality, such ones have a lack of beauty and quality of character.
~ Ehsan Sehgal