Quotes About Words

The politician, Johnson's experience had taught him, could make promises without keeping them; words spoken in public had little relation to the practical conduct of daily life. But whatever justification a politician may claim for deceptions, the statesman must align his words with his action.

Lincoln warned, the lawyer must not rely on rhetorical glibness or persuasiveness alone. What is well-spoken must be yoked to what is well-thought. And such thought is the product of great labor, "the drudgery of the law." Without that labor, without that drudgery, the most eloquent words lack gravity and power.

Ich glaube, dass Literatur – ein Roman, eine Erzählung, sogar eine Zeile aus einem Gedicht – die Macht hat, Reiche zu zerstören. (Schritte im Schatten)

We all nourish truth with our tongues not in sour-batter words that never take shape nor line-driven stories bent to skirt the edge of our great exhaustion, desire, and doubt. We all use simply the words of our own lives to say what we really want, to lie spent on our lovers, put teeth to all we hate, to strain the juice of our history between what has been allowed and what has always been denied, the active desire to take hold of the root.

Words is but wind but dunts is the devil

Oh, well. I don't mind helping you to feel guilty if you must. On the other hand, I should point out that of all our various encounters, today is the only time you have favoured me with two civil words in sequence. I found it quite worrying.

the words "problem" and "solution" as commonly used, belong to the analytic approach to phenomena, and not to the creative.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.

Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.

I can't write five words but that I change seven.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

The second act, indeed, might have been used to good advantage to start the play off with, and all the words that preceded it could have been saved for future use. Thriftily managed, they would have served the author for the next three years.

But it was the chance carelessness of it which particularly appealed to Dirk because words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

On yedi y?l, üç ay, iki gün, beÅŸ saat, on dokuz dakika ve yirmi iki saniyedir birisinin bana söylediÄŸi ilk ÅŸey bu. dedi adam. Sayd?m.

Arthur made nervous noises.

You see, between me and life there is a mist of words always.

because even the alphabet is precious.

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

A cutting word is worse than a bowstring; a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not