Quotes About Words

True love is not feelings or flowery words; it is action. Love is as love does

The Chinese poet George Wu ... recorded on his comlog: Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. Later, on his last disk to his lover the week before he died, Wu said: Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

I love being a poet. It's the goddamned words I can't stand.

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth.

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become." Later, on his last disk to his lover the week before he died, Wu said: "Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

You're disgusting," said Brawne Lamia. "Ah, darling," smiled Silenus, "those are the same words you whispered last night after your second orgasm.

And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my hair and brow, and the words carved about the cathedral of my childhood: 'He's like all the other children. He's a good boy.

The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

"…And if you hurt me, that's okay baby, only words bleed. Inside these pages you just hold me, and I won't ever let you go. Wait for me to come home."

"I hope you don't mind/I hope you don't mind that I put down in words/How wonderful life is while you're in the world"

Help! Why is Wednesday spelled like that?

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.

I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.

They say actions speak louder than words, but actions dont speak. People speak, and people are loud.