Quotes About Words

how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...

you know I wanted a Madonna, not a whore - I made you sacred offering you my words...

perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.

Toxic words corrupt and defile the mind. There are words of suspicion, words of bitterness, and words of death.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.4       ââ'¬Â¢   Words can make a deeper scar than silence can ever heal.5       ââ'¬Â¢   Kind words are short to speak, but their echoes are endless.6

language has consequences.

I am your stone of necessity calling up spirits from rain puddles—your Magus of words

Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin

Guess what hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia means? Fear of long words. Isn't that the coolest?" - Kevin McGill in Madhattan Mystery

Considera las palabras dichas como un medio de llegar a la verdad. Yo las considero un medio para ocultarla.

Mi escritura era muy apretada, como nerviosa. Las palabras discurrían en líneas titubeantes. como un campo de trigo recorrido por un soplo de viento.

Emotions are none of these. As a result, there's a huge blind spot in the language of emotion, vast holes in the lexicon that we don't even know we're missing. We have thousands of words for different types of finches and schooners and historical undergarments, but only a rudimentary vocabulary to capture the delectable subtleties of the human experience.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

it seems a strange way of understanding a law, which requires the plainest and directest words, that by death should be meant eternal life in misery.

Truth is the marking down in words the agreement or disagreement of ideas as it is. Falsehood is the marking down in words the agreement or disagreement of ideas otherwise than it is. And so far as these ideas, thus marked by sounds, agree to their archetypes, so far only is the truth real. The knowledge of this truth consists in knowing what ideas the words stand for, and the perception of the agreement or disagreement of those ideas, according as it is marked by those words.

La suficiencia simplemente significa que en las Escrituras tenemos todas las palabras de Dios que necesitamos.15 No debemos intentar añadirles algo, ni nos atrevemos a quitarles algo, porque vivimos de toda palabra que viene de Dios.

So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

Let us beware: nothing is so delicate and so sacred as the human soul; nothing is so quickly bruised. Let each one of our words and deeds contain a principle of life that, penetrating other spirits, will communicate light and strength and will reveal God to them.

Communication is a combination of right words and sensitive acts.

Baines's smirk gave the words layers Kit did not care to think about.