Quotes About Words

In the books inked by scribes, words ran together without any break across every line on every page, in what's now referred to as scriptura continua.

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love Help to make the earth happy, like the heaven above. JULIA CARNEY, 1823—1908

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words and your faith stronger than your feelings.

Anglisc voices: words drumming like apples split over wooden boards, round, rich, stirring. Like her father's words, and her mother's, and her sister's. Utterly unlike Onnen's otter-swift British or the dark liquid gleam of Irish.

The warm breath, the smell of tansy and lavender, the words triggered a surge of something wild she couldn't name

What a waste and fuss for a bit of water and a few words.

Hild remembered her mother's words exactly-the light of the world must remember everything.

Artos, she thought. A king. In Caer Leon. The words rang in her head like a bell, like a scent of the lake, like the bright clean shimmer of the Companions.

If she used weapons the way she used words, no one would stand against her; they'd have no idea where the stroke would fall next.

Twilight ran along the harp's bronze strings and the bard's voice rose and dropped, not unlike the fells to the east, making a twisting, hypnotic rhythm of poised and perfect words.

There are words for deceiving others, like "rational." And others, like "dialectic," for deceiving oneself.

Mehr als eine ideologische Strategie ist die Linke eine Lexikographische Taktik.

Il est certains esprits dont les sombres pensées Sont d'un nuage épais toujours embarrassées ; Le jour de la raison ne le saurait percer. Avant donc que d'écrire, apprenez à penser. Selon que notre idée est plus ou moins obscure, L'expression la suit, ou moins nette, ou plus pure. Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.

However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

It does not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdom is needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, but encourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of his soul, refreshed by water.

In fact, when you think about it, if a word from the street occurs in a book it is not the writer who is guilty, but the readers, and primarily those readers belonging to the upper classes: for they are the ones who will never utter a single decent Russian word; their speech is so abundantly stuffed with every manner of French, German, and English words that you want to block your ears...

Ihm gefiel nicht das, was er las, sondern eher das Lesen an sich, oder besser gesagt, der Prozess des Lesens selbst, wo sich da doch immerzu aus den Buchstaben irgendein Wort ergibt, das manchmal weiß der Teufel was bedeutet. Dieses Lesen wurde gemeinhin im Vorraum auf dem Bett im liegenden Zustand vollzogen, auf der Matratze, die infolge dieses Umstands so hart und fest wie ein Fladen geworden war.

Friends always see your words weird and useless at the free moment but helpful at the time of trouble.

What if an ordinary person cannot make a difference without talking about politics, without letting political concerns have their due, without feeling alarm, without figuring out some way to trust the power of words -- without, that is, becoming an extraordinary person?

S?owa tworz? ?wiaty. Rzeczywisto?? jest cisz?.

To the tongue which bringeth thee words without reason, the answer that best beseemeth thee is?silence.