Quotes About Words

I am a woman committed to a politics of transliteration, the methodology of a mind stunned at the suddenly possible shifts of meaning - for which like amnesiacs in a ward on fire, we must find words or burn.

S?owa s? jak jaszczurki, potrafi? uciec z ka?dego zamkni?cia.

The truth is terrible: describing is destroying.

every single Person has their own expression which he or she overuses. Or uses incorrectly. These words or phrases are the key to their intellect. Mr. "Apparently," Mr. "Generally," Mrs. "Probably," Mr. "Fucking," Mrs. "Don't You Think?," Mr. "As If.

Anger can prompt one to utter various words, but it can also make one fail to remember them afterward.

I felt as if the words I had spoken that day had soiled my tongue and mouth.

Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it out of wood, you must make it out of words.

is better to keep silent and to be, rather than to speak but not to be. One who truly possesses Christ's words can also hear his silence in order to be perfect … Nothing is hidden from the Lord but our very secrets are close to him. Let us do everything in him who dwells in us so that we may become his temples. Ignatius of Antioch Epistle to the Ephesians, 15,1-3 (SC 10, p. 84)

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity.

Likewise in our Zen sect, although we boast of having no words or phrases, we cannot help the profuse amount of literature because it expresses compassion or what we call "grandmotherly concern.

It is into these two schools that Hakuin's Zen is divided at present. The teaching of the Takuju School is characterized by the mysterious symbolism of words, whereas that of the Inzan School is reputed for the severity of its dynamic action.

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication. – Oren Arnold

Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for the first time.

We have pointed to the way of Jesus, and then through our behavior we have stood squarely in the path of anyone who might like to join it. Plainly, there is a time in our arguments to confess, and confession and changed lives have to be a key part of our arguments. When it comes our responding to hypocrisy, words will never be enough.

by what criteria? By those of modern

At this moment, as I stood on the verge of tears, the words "realism" and "romanticism" welled up within me. I have no sense of realism. And that this very fact might be what permits me to go on living sends cold chills through my whole body.

But people almost never say, "Die!", Paltry prudent, hypocrites.

These clownish words of deceit were taken more seriously than the truth.

The true substance of love lies in the act of howling words of love with a desperation of a man jumping into the high seas.

It was strange how she calmed my agitation with those few words.

To adore. To be adored." What vulgar words, there is something shallow and too self-satisfied in them. Just when these words are spoken on a festive occasion, a magnificent temple starts to fall, and after that, there is only complete indifference.