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Quotes About Words

The words came so fast they seemed to roll down hill. Nobody ever calls it all that; it's just spring wheat, but I like the words. They heap up and make a picture of a spring that's slow to come, when the ground stays frozen late into March and the air is raw, and the skies are sulky and dark
~ Unknown
Mas as palavras parecem esperar a morte e o esquecimento; permanecem soterradas, petrificadas, em estado latente, para depois, em lenta combustão, acenderam em nós o desejo de contar passagens que o tempo dissipou. E o tempo, que nos faz esquecer, também é cúmplice delas. Só o tempo transforma nossos sentimentos em palavras mais verdadeiras (...)".
~ Unknown
Louca para ser livre'. Palavras mortas. Ninguém se liberta só com palavras.
~ Unknown
o silêncio é mais belo e consistente que muitas palavras
~ Unknown
Words never mattered' he said, 'seasons mattered. Notice how people behave when they're desperate - that's who they are,' he warned.
~ Min Jin Lee
With these coins I find you. With these words I bind you. Keep our secret, silent be. Speak to no man, not of me. Diddle dum, diddle dee, fi, fo, fum.
~ Unknown
If you don,t understand my silence . How you will understand my words.
~ Unknown
Whenever you study or contemplate the Dharma, Rely not on the words, but on the meaning. If the meaning is understood, then regardless of the speaker's style, There will be no conflict.
~ Unknown
Tants de mots han perdut el pes i el gruix que ja no goso cloure els punys amb força com abans, per por de sentir tot un món que s'esmicola.
~ Unknown
Moral neka stvara štampa
~ Miroslav Krleža
There's something about putting words on a page in private that makes me feel powerful in public.
~ Mitali Perkins
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words then words without a heart
~ Unknown
Destiny stays stuck in the cage of words and thoughts if it is not pulled by the effective and planed efforts with the touch of a true madness your nature sparks with the every single breath that you take.
~ Mohsin Ali Shaukat
True Love never needs the Expression of Words, It Speaks the Language Blessed by God and when it speaks, Only Miracles Happen. "
~ Mohsin Ali Shaukat
DORINE. By my faith, With such a fine broad back, good Mr. Loyal, A little beating would become you well. MR. LOYAL. My girl, such infamous words are actionable. And warrants can be issued against women.
~ Moliere
Tous les hommes sont semblables par les paroles,ce n'est que les actions qui les découvrent différents
~ Moliere
Her words were as sharp as an eyeful of sand. She never raised her voice. It was the kind of voice that never needed to be raised. It cut words to a fine point and launched them decisively (page 88).
~ Monica Ali
Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.
~ Monica Ali
Ooo la la! That kiss was fine, and it was full of all the words I didn't need to say.
~ Monica Drake
Dear Father, hear and bless The beasts and singing birds, And guard with special tenderness Small things that have no words.
~ Unknown
I have always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new words, for their air of mystery, for their characters who lived in them, for the sublime pleasure of disappearing. But not until now, at the threshold of this perilous summer, have I ever turned to storybooks for instruction.
~ Monica Wood
The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.
~ Monique Truong
The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, imprudent ones to feed them. It is true, though, that there are some French words that I have picked up quickly, in fact, words that I cannot remember not knowing. As if I had been born with them in my mouth, as if they were seeds of a sour fruit that someone else ate and then ungraciously stuffed its remains into my mouth.
~ Monique Truong
I had forgotten how different my language looks on paper, that its letters have so little resemblance to how they actually sound. Words, most I had not spoken for years, generously gave themselves to me. Fluency, after all, is relative. On that sheet of paper, on another side of the globe, I am fluent.
~ Monique Truong