Quotes About Words

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

It was fun watching the cigarette smoke develop into words until he saw what they said.

If silence is golden, then Zen may be called an alchemy that transforms all things into gold by purifying them in the fire of the negation of all words and letters, names and concepts, logical methods and theoretical systems...

It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed and permanent in time, the words, if anything, made the people and places more real than the everchanging world.

And he loves to read. He loves the whisper of the pages and the way his fingertips catch on rough paper, the pour of the words up from the leaves, through the soft light, into his eyes, the mute voice in his ears.

vocabulary is actually more important than grammar.

Vocabulary knowledge is critical to any communication. Wilkins (1972) summarizes the situation best: "While without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed" (p. 111).

Don't fool yourself by thinking you can talk ugly about somebody and then act lovingly toward them. You can't. Your actions are going to fall right in line with your words. That's a biblical principle.

What comes out of our hearts through the words of our mouths determines what comes to pass in our lives. It's the absolute truth.

Mothers and Dads: Your home atmosphere is the product of WORDS. Children fail because wrong WORDS were spoken. The right WORDS were not spoken.

My words are life unto those that find them, and my words are health, or medicine, to all their flesh" (Proverbs 4:20–22).

Step number seven to receiving answered prayer is make every prayer relative to what you've asked a statement of faith instead of unbelief. You can think and say words of faith just as easily as you can think and say words of doubt and unbelief. It is thinking faith thoughts and speaking faith words that leads the heart out of defeat and into victory.

Now notice Proverbs 6:2. In the margin of my Bible, that verse reads, "Thou art taken captive with the words of thy mouth." In other words, you said the wrong thing, and as a result, you were taken captive.

In my ears I have heard the words of Sitting Bull, telling me that white people are not to be trusted. But I have also heard the words of Black Kettle, who told us to reach out a hand of peace.

People should think of their words like seeds. They should plant them, then let them grow in silence. Our old people taught us that the earth is always speaking to us, but that we have to be silent to hear her.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

All commands from your lips are sweet....

Who hasn't succumbed to a hopeless feeling more powerful than all the strength one might possibly muster, wondering how many first steps will have to be taken, how many actions performed and words spoken, how many labyrinths will have to be negotiated in order, finally, to reach the moment at which reality begins to happen.

Ma vivi altrove. Il tuo tenero sangue si è fatto altrove. Le parole che dici non hanno riscontro con la scabra tristezza di questo cielo. [...]

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Language is the charnel house of man.

My speech is imperfect. Not because I want to shine with words, but out of the impossibility of finding those words, I speak in images. With nothing else to express the words from the depths.

The words that oscillate between nonsense and supreme meaning are the oldest and truest.