Quotes About Words

En Mateo 12:36, Jesús dijo: «Mas yo os digo que de toda palabra ociosa que hablen los hombres, de ella darán cuenta en el día del juicio».

that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks (see Matt. 12:34 KJV).

Good words are worth much, and cost little. —George Herbert

Unlike Maxine Kumin, I never learned to pay the syntax.

Then Adam received some words [of prayer] from his Lord and He accepted his repentance. He is the Forgiving One, the Merciful.

Soch kesi hain emaan kesa hain lafz bata dete hain insaan kesa hain

But we all hoped, in whatever way our capacities permitted, to define and illustrate the worthy life. With me it was always to be done in words; Sid too, though with less confidence. With Sally it was sympathy, human understanding, a tenderness toward human cussedness or frailty. And with Charity it was organization, order, action, assistance to the uncertain, and direction to the wavering.

Total grandeur of a total edifice,Chosen by an inquisitor of structuresFor himself. He stops upon this thresholdAs if the design of all his words takes formAnd frame from thinking and is realized.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon, The maker's rage to order words of the sea, Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred, And of ourselves and of our origins, In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.

Diaries are very futile. I must be all dream or all deed. It is quite impossible for me to express any of the beauty I feel to half the degree I feel it; and yet it is a great pleasure to seize an impression and lock it up in words: you feel as if you had it safe forever.

Public opinion... requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor... Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Bücher erschaffen kannst du noch nicht", sagte der Schattenkönig, "aber umbringen kannst du sie schon. Bist du sicher, daß du nicht lieber Kritiker werden möchtest?

Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.

The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is mediocre rubbish, trash suitable for mass consumption. More and more, bigger and bigger blockbusters of less and less significance. What counts is the paper we sell, not the words that are printed on it.

He paused to write a five-thousand-word rebuttal.

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Money was also allocated for historical research, a worship anthology called Women's Words, and an AIDS outreach ministry.

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

To blame words or images for the actions of people is simplistic. It retards any real examination into what motivates violent crimes, such as rape. Radical feminists are handing a "pornography made me do it" excuse to rapists. Nothing should be allowed to mitigate the personal responsibility of every man who physically abuses a woman.