Quotes About Words

Confucius says Love one another. If it doesn't work, just interchange the last two words.

Little keys can open big locks, simple words can express great thoughts. A text from you never fails to make me smile the whole day through.

I trust you is a better compliment than I love you

Some people make cutting remarks, but the words of the wise bring healing.

The cruel things a mother tells a daughter live until the daughter's dying breath. They often are a daughter's dying breath.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

I can see why many visual artists dislike words in artworks. They feel that words dirty the clear water that has to reflect the sky. It disturbs the pleasure of the silent image, the freedom from history, the beauty of nameless forms. (...) I know that neither images nor words, can escape the drunkenness and longing caused by the turning of the world. Words and images drink the same wine. There is no purity to protect.

Word is divine wish, they say. Word is invisible to all but the gods. So when woman or man write words, they dare to look at the divine.

If anyone that Sunday suggested that there was an element of the sacred to her ritual, she likely would have disagreed. There was no open Bible. No sanctified cloth. No preacher or even professors substituting for a divinely inspired voice. Not even a candlestick before her. This ceremony was liturgy of a different order. If her desk were indeed an altar, it was a shrine not to God, but to words.

They're an idea of home, I think. Words are. It really is like opening a door, isn't it, to open a book. If that's not too sentimental to say. Books, words, stories are a kind of solace.

Conception and form are bound together; finding and shaping the words is a matter of finding the appropriate...fit between conception and expression.

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

We exalt our calling, not to gain glory among men, or money, or satisfaction, or favor, but because people need to be assured that the words we speak are the words of God. This is no sinful pride. It is holy pride.

18. I will put My words in His mouth. This also clearly proves that the Prophet will teach something different.

The vicious character of sin is brought out by the words "who gave himself for our sins." So vicious is sin that only the sacrifice of Christ could atone for sin.

Those precious words, Holy and Spiritual, have been perverted for us through the greed of the preachers, in that they have denominated the state of priests and monks holy and spiritual, and have thus scandalously robbed us of these noble, precious words, as also of the word Church, since with them the Pope and Bishops are the Church, while they do according to their own pleasure whatever they choose, in virtue of the declaration

Theology is nothing else but grammar engaged with the words of the Holy Spirit.

Men simplify the world with words and thoughts, and that's how they create their certainties; and having certainty is the most potent pleasure in this world, far more potent than money, sex, and power all combined. Renouncing

also conducted. They were luxurious, and they

The words were spoken quietly, not in anger, but they were laced with a malevolence that only a fool would choose to ignore.

Once things were said out loud, they could never be taken back. They were out there for ever.