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Quotes About Words

My life's entwined by curly quote marks Clever phrases and profound remarks....
~ Terri Guillemets
You're not quite sure what it means but the words are so beautiful you know it must be profound.
~ Terri Guillemets
Ink surrounds me all the time On my bed sheets, recorded in rhyme Quills 'ever scribbling in my head Sometimes damnit I forget what they said. Ink has settled into my fingerprints But to keep the words I fear to rinse...
~ Terri Guillemets
Because your voice is the most influential voice in your life! If you want to see where your life is headed, listen to the words that are coming out of your mouth.
~ Terri Savelle Foy
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
~ Terry Brooks
We need words from heaven. Too many words come from the human heart and not from heaven. God wants prophets who will bring words from heaven that will change things on earth.
~ Terry Collins
the words become inevitable through my connection with their meaning,
~ Terry Gross
death and life are in the power of the tongue" (Prov. 18:21) means that you have tremendous power not only to attract blessing, but also to invoke it in the lives of those you love.
~ Terry Law
They were hollow words. I think God heard this and knew. Promises should be sacred; I think I cursed myself by making one I did not intend to keep.
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
~ Theophile Gautier
Demander à la poésie du sentimentalisme ... ce n'est pas ça. Des mots rayonnants, des mots de lumière ... avec un rythme et une musique, voilà ce que c'est, la poésie.
~ Theophile Gautier
Like a beautiful flower, full of colour but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.
~ The Dhammapada
All the philosophies in the universe can be defined by words. Thus, if you simply take all the words and reshuffle them arbitrarily enough times, you're destined to hit upon at least a few great philosophies ultimately.
~ the omani shed
Sting of a bee kills one person but sting of words hurt an entire nations
~ the omani shed
Nothing is more becoming a man than silence. It is not the preaching but the practice which ought to be considered as the more important. A profusion of words is sure to lead to error.
~ The Talmud
Understand a man by his deeds and words; the impressions of others lead to false judgment.
~ The Talmud
He was hurling words at his shrinking wife like clods or bricks and she was not dodging but receiving them like a willing saint, enduring abuse like a terrible balm.
~ Thea Astley
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
~ Theocritus
Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
~ Theodore Dreiser
People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Cuvintele sunt ca energia brut?: înc?rcate cu putere, capabile s? È™ocheze sau s? aline, s? r?neasc?, s? fac? r?u ori s? consoleze. Efectul lor e mai lung decât al unei lovituri. În mâini nemiloase, sunt o arm? periculoas?.
~ Theresa Breslin
Esoteric words neither make us holy nor righteous; only a virtuous life makes us beloved of God. I would rather experience repentance in my soul than know how to define it.
~ Thomas a Kempis