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Quotes About Words

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.
~ Petronius
Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.
~ Hal Borland
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
~ John Marsden
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.
~ Pierre Schaeffer
The summer breeze was blowing on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden
~ Van Morrison
Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.
~ Ram Dass
When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.
~ Thomas Hobbes
No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.
~ Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
I am lover of words... I am wickedly drunk with the magic of words... the poetic nature whispers through and to my very heart and soul.
~ Jennifer Hillman
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
~ Wallace Stevens
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.
~ Francis Quarles
Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.
~ Andrew Bird
Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!
~ Nathan Hale
Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Your words bring me joy. Let the two of us unite to bring forth a world of peace and virtue.
~ Liu Bei
Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.
~ Pythagoras
And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.
~ Walter de La Mare
Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!
~ Pope Francis
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.
~ Gautama Buddha