Quotes About Words

Intentions come in two forms," he said: "THAT WHICH OUR HEART INTENDS and THAT WHICH OUR WORDS INTEND

Our thoughts, our faith, our beliefs, our efforts, all materialize, and are objectified about us. Our words become flesh and live with us; our thoughts, our emotions, also become flesh and live with us; they become our environment and surround us.

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win. Everybody thinks Hitler got to power because of his armies, because they were willing to kill, and that's partly true, because in the real world power is always built on the threat of death and dishonor. But mostly he got to power on words, on the right words at the right time.

Hay periodos en que el mundo se reestructura, y en esos períodos las palabras precisas pueden cambiar el mundo.

A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.

She is a woman, and so she dreams of freedom, of an hour in which there is no duty waiting to be done. No wonder there is revolution burning in her words, and yet they remain always words and never violence.

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

You think—I dare say that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it We're destroying words—scores of them hundreds of them every day. It's a beautiful thing the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms there are also the antonyms.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

I will always wonder what it was, what that moment of beauty was, when he whispered it to me, when we found him smashed up in the hospital, what it was he was saying when he whispered into the dark that he had seen something he could not forget, a jumble of words, a man, a building, I could not quite make it out. I can only hope that in the last minute he was at peace.

Quando le parole perdono di senso, i popoli perdono la loro libertà.

I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.

Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech.

Avant d'ouvrir la bouche, assure-toi que ce que tu vas dire est plus beau que le silence.

He said : Not to know the decree is to be without the means of being a proper man. 2. Not to know the rites is to be without means to construct. 3. Not to know words is to be without the fluid needful to understand men.

Speaking (dao )" is a "guiding discourse (dao )." Said a different way, language is both performative and prescriptive; it both does something to the world and recommends how it should be.

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.

I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.

Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.