Quotes About Words

Erik Satie died on July 1, 1925; his last words were 'Ah, the cows...

Your life does matter. It always matters whether you reach out in friendship or lash out in anger. It always matters whether you live with compassion and awareness or whether you succumb to distractions and trivia. It always matters how you treat other people, how you treat animals, and how you treat yourself. It always matters what you do. It always matters what you say. And it always matters what you eat.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Syllables govern the world.

I know that whenever I see some goon energetically mouthing the words to a song I can't hear, I assume the worst: Creed

Changing prejudice often inverts the value of words while preserving most of their sense; virtues are turned into vices, artistic qualities become defects.

If you love language, it will love you back.

Either A is B or C is D," means, "if A is not B, C is D; and if C is not D, A is B." All hypothetical propositions, therefore, though disjunctive in form, are conditional in meaning; and the words hypothetical and conditional may be, as indeed they generally are, used synonymously.

Names with indeterminate connotation are not to be confounded with names which have more than one connotation, that is to say, ambiguous words.

The fifth leading division of names is into relative and absolute, or let us rather say, relative and non-relative; for the word absolute is put upon much too hard duty in metaphysics, not to be willingly spared when its services can be dispensed with.

I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.

Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge, Which dwells but in the tongue!

The Lord is giving new words to new believers and they are as valuable as the words given to veterans and generals of the faith. It is not good for the Body of Christ to lean solely on the words and faith of the preachers and prophets, but also recognize and hear the voice of God through the babes in Christ.

The young men of this generation mock the words of age; it would be well if they mocked nothing else; but what can we expect of those who doubt all and believe nothing?

Kate was always, like most mothers, wasting words and knowing she wasted them.

The only source of my power are the pages you hold and the words written thereon. As you read them, I hope the magic starts to work between my words and your imagination.

It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.

Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It's an illusion I've noticed before—words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It lasts only while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or the pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.

Thoughts do not need the wings of words to fly to any goal, Like subtle lightnings, not like birds, They speed from soul to soul.

I'd go with her, like a flash I'd go, if this were anything more than a dream, anything more than an infidel's sour regret, anything more than eleven thousand words cast like a handful of sand across the face of the ocean.

Here's the deal. Words have plans. Ambitions. Goals. They are always trying to veer around us & zoom away. They wish to leave us in an abysmal darkness. You can think what you like about this.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

The character is revealed, not by occasional good deeds and occasional misdeeds, but by the tendency of the habitual words and acts.

All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.