Quotes About Words

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.

Though I have many words, What woman's satisfied, I am no longer faint Because at her side? O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and expect to be successful.

A woman, desires to hear nice words from a man who can praise her beauty.

I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday That Changed Today.

Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge, Which dwells but in the tongue!

That's what a poem is. Words which have a hidden meaning. A poem is like a secret.

Trump's juvenilia stands in stark contrast to Obama's measured words.

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying.

I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

The words of truth are simple, and justice needs no subtle interpretations, for it has a fitness in itself; but the words of injustice, being rotten in themselves, require clever treatment.

drain economics out of the world, and you're left with few tools for explaining anything. Why is our culture the way it is? Why does TV get coarser with each passing year? What makes certain styles or words or ideas suddenly so visible while others disappear?

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Silence can mock.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

Once a story is told, it cannot be called back. Once told, it is loose in the world.