Quotes About Words

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

Will you carry the words of love with you?

At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.

Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.

True love turns words and feelings into actions.

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

Scripts are totally different," Nate said. "Scripts are . . . they're like an X-ray of a book. Just the bones. The words people say and the things they do.

A story? No. No stories, never again.

A word may give me its meaning, but first it suppresses it. For me to be able to say, 'This woman' I must somehow take her flesh and blood reality away from her, cause her to be absent, annihilate her. The word gives me the being, but it gives it to me deprived of being. The word is the absence of that being, its nothingness, what is left of it when it has lost being - the very fact that it does not exist.

Ben lungi dall'essere fluida, la modernità è l'epoca in cui le parole sono pietre, e in cui si attua l'incubo del verba manent .

She put the words back in the envelope, because fuck doing that again.

A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

Author Glennon Doyle Melton wrote, "Every time we open our mouths and speak, we are either saying let their be light or let their be darkness.

The whole page 199 about the apostle Paul, but especially this: All of his words could be reduced to one sentence. We preach Christ crucified (1Cor. 1:23 NIV). It wasn't that he lacked other sermon outlines; it was just than he could not't exhaust the first one.

Accept teaching from his mouth, and keep his words in your heart. [ Job 22:22 NCV ]