Quotes About Words

Jijingi realized that, if he thought hard about it, he was now able to identify the words when people spoke in an ordinary conversation. The sounds that came from a person's mouth hadn't changed, but he understood them differently; he was aware of the pieces from which the whole was made. He himself had been speaking in words all along. He just hadn't known it until now.

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity," and

Though I am long dead as you read this, explorer, I offer to you a valediction. Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I have a right to tell you this because, as I am inscribing these words, I am doing the same.

words differently each time he told it; he was skilled enough as a storyteller that the arrangement of words didn't matter. It was different for Moseby, who never acted anything out when he gave his sermons; for him, the words were what was important. Jijingi realized that Moseby wrote down his sermons not because his memory was terrible but because he was looking for a specific arrangement of words. Once he found the one he wanted, he could hold on to it for as long as he needed.

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity

God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.

My father] would tell me not to listen to too many words. "The strength of words lies in implementation, otherwise they are meaningless." He himself was a man of very few words, but whatever he said was enough to make an impact on me. He explained why, "Too many dialogues scatter and waste, say a little so that your words are remembered.

My mother] would tell me not to doubt God's understanding of His people, "Empty words and long praises do not impress Him. Show Him your faith by deeds, otherwise why should He believe you?

Listen to many, speak to a few.

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?

If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.

In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

If someone is not playing defense or not giving effort, that's my specialty. I don't hold back on my words.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.