Quotes About Words

Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.

He scribbled a lot of words for a dying man.

plural is generally formed from the singular by the addition of s or es.

To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

This is a word that is a pitfall to the most of us whether learned or unlearned. Probably it is the most indiscriminately used word in the language.

Rise, prophet, rise, and hear, and see, And let my words be seen and heard By all who turn aside from me. And burn them with my fiery word.

It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

the Blood and the Blood from the Body. In what other way, in fact, would it be possible to represent the bloody Sacrifice through the Consecration? Hence our oppo nents defeat themselves with their own weapons when they deny that the separation of the Blood from the Body is a result of the words of Consecration.

with agony, and he felt warm, sticky blood pooling beneath his paws. His Clanmates' furious words seemed to be coming from a long way off, as if he were underwater

I give you a life for healing wounds caused by words and rivalry. Use it well for all cats troubled in spirit.

It is at times like this we need the words of ancient warriors to help us.

Before I could protest, she laid a hand on my avatar's chest and muttered a few arcane words.

Las únicas armas eran las palabras, por lo que no tarde en aprender a blandirlas con mucha habilidad.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

Listen! Listen to stories! For spirituality itself is conveyed by stories, which use words in ways that go beyond words to speak the language of the heart. Especially in a spirituality of imperfection, a spirituality of not having all the answers, stories convey the mystery and the miracle - and the adventure - of being alive.

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]

Prognoses which have been made contend that our technology will terminate in pure necromancy. If so, everything we now experience would be only a departure and mechanics would become refined to a degree that would no longer require any crude embodiment. Lights, words, yes even thoughts would be sufficient. (1957)

Un escriptor instiga, sobretot, a la lectura, i de vegades també a l'escriptura. Un escritor instiga, sobretodo, a la lectura, y, de vez en cuando también a la escritura

Much has been written and said about the creative power of thoughts and words—especially words. But it seems to me that few people truly understand this power. If they understood it, how could they go on using words with such carelessness?

Freedom, Wash, is a word with different meanings to different people," he said, as though I did not know the truth of this better than he.

sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition.

What color was the scorpion? I remembered the question Henenu had asked me years ago. The answer was vital: brown scorpions didn't have the power to kill humans, but white ones did. 'Brown.' He summoned up a wobbly smile. 'Not very big, either. I shouldn't be carrying on like this. You'll think I'm a child.' 'Not many children know the kind of words you were using,' I replied dryly.

We know that words do not teach, that only life experience teaches, but the combination of life experience coupled with words that define and explain can enhance the experience of learning—and it is in that spirit that we offer these words.