Quotes About Words

Silence is golden when it's called for. Silence can be deadly when it's not called for

A melhor maneira de mentir é ficar calado.

Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.

It was her business now to believe - in the power and beauty of words, in the spirits that move among us always, in the worlds of light and dark that neighbor us - to believe in the possibility of the impossible.

Does the prisoner have any final words?" Canis looked out at the crowd and laughed. "What's so funny, mongrel?" Heart shouted. "Look at all the monsters," he said.

If you stop to think about it, you'll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

Sometimes we know people who are too wonderful for words. I am not one of them. Or you, for that matter, as you well know.

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

We read Revelation as words from a prophet-pastor (and ultimately from God), in order to be formed and transformed, not merely informed

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness," he once wrote. "Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

When Plutarch says that a city might sooner subsist without a geographical site than without belief in the gods, his words would not have appeared strange to his countrymen at any time.']

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.

Those phone calls, those millions of words and stories, merely became the beginning of the Book of Us.

In business, words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

buy a cup of tea from the dining car, along with a 'gourmet' sandwich which is evidence of how culinary words can be devalued.

But do I need to say anything?" Sophie asked. "Do I need to learn any words?" "Like what?" Saint-Germain said. "Well, when you lit up the Eiffel tower, you said something that sounded like eggness." "Ignis," the count said. "Latin for fire. No, you don't need to say anything." "Then why did you do it, then?" Sophie asked. Saint-Germain grinned. "I just thought it sounded cool.

And when in doubt, Josh, follow your heart. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this... This is always true.

Y cuando dudes, Josh —jadeó—, sigue tu corazón. Las palabras pueden ser falsas y las imágenes y sonidos pueden manipularse. Pero esto… —dijo señalando el pecho de Josh—, siempre te dirá la verdad.

Every word written is a victory against Death.

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.

Az irodalom mélységesen fogalmi m?vészet (...) Semmit sem lehet állítani, tagadni, relativizálni, kigúnyolni a fogalmak segítsége nélkül, szavak nélkül. Innen fakad az irodalmi tevékenység meglepÅ' robosztussága: az irodalom megtagadhatja magát, elpusztíthatja magát, lehetetlennek nyilváníthatja magát, miközben mégis önmaga marad.