Quotes About Words

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

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those words of old in their place of old end of part three and last present formulation at the end before the silence the panting without pause the animal in want of air the mouth murmuring them in the mud and the continuation of old when the panting stops ten words fifteen words a murmur to the mud

But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.

Almost through force of habit, she found her lips saying the words she had so often said before: "Let's not spoil it . . . You will write to me, my dear, my dear . . ." His face was impassive. "I never write," he said.

street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo,

Some words are wind. Some words are treason.

They were all lawyers, all schooled in the authority of words, though as their words turned to dust a pall of impotence and futility settled over the mission.

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

familiar with the "fine print" one received from financial institutions and health-insurance companies; the last thing one was supposed to do with those thousands of words was comprehend them.

in other words, his story was part boast, part confession.

There was a long silence as we swam around in the strange currents of Dad's words.

but I had learned an important lesson about the power that my words now carried.

But in a financial crisis, the words of government officials carry extraordinary weight.

When that day come, we'll be waiting. Waiting for Charlie St. Cloud to come home to us. Until then we offer these parting words... May he live in peace

There was no pain when I awoke, No pain at all. Rest, like a goad, Spurred my eyes open -- and light broke Upon them like a million swords: And she was there. There are no words. Heaven is for a moment's span. And ever.

Words may show a man's wit, actions his meaning.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

If you would reap Praise you must sow the Seeds, Gentle Words and useful Deeds.

Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of modesty is want of sense.

But there are many who, though they frequently hear the Gospel, yet feel but little longing after it, because they have not the mind of Christ. He, therefore, that will fully and with true wisdom understand the words of Christ, let him strive to conform his whole life to that mind of Christ.