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Quotes About Words

My music and words are art they are timeless, my music and choice of words will fit within the many futures in the future times and years to come. -MillYentei
~ Deshawn Yeldell
And then it begins The search For the fifth head of Brahma His first have us words His second gave us Grammar His third gave us meter His fourth gave us Melody The last one is missing The fifth The head with meaning
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.
~ Diana Palmer
Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.
~ Diane Duane
For no matter how weak she felt, Betsy could wield words as a weapon. When an acquaintance insisted it was impossible to acquire a knowledge of the world without being deeply infected with its vices, she retorted that knowledge was a precaution rather than a trap, "for as soon as [we] have found out where [we] are mostly likely to be overcome, there let [us] place [our] strongest guard.
~ Diane Jacobs
Magic and its remedies deal with borders, markers, distinctions, insides and outsides, the limits of bodies, and also that which breaches these boundaries; bodily fluids, exchanges of objects through bodies and across thresholds, words that pass through the guard of the ear and enter the mind of the hearer. Women's bodies by virtue of their reproductive capacities, are seen as more open, more grotesque, less autonomous
~ Diane Purkiss
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
~ Diane Setterfield
Italians basic word chest, as tallied in a recent dictionary, totals a measly 200,000, compared to English's 600,000 (not counting technical terms). But
~ Dianne Hales
Bush's "the French have no word for entrepreneur" is guaranteed immortality.
~ Dick Cavett
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. They should remain open. Our only comfort is the God of the resurrection, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The very hour of disillusionment with my brother becomes incomparably salutary, because it so thoroughly teaches me that neither of us can ever live by our own words and deeds, but only by that one Word and Deed which really binds us together--the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ. When the morning mists of dreams vanish, then dawns the bright day of Christian fellowship.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Let thy speech be better than silence or be silent
~ Dionysius of Halicarnassus
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
~ Dodie Smith
She cared so much about her words, her creative expression, when what mattered to everyone else was the bottom line. Everything was a business--even art. She'd written the songs, but she wouldn't be able to truly own them. Not if she wanted the rest of the world to hear them.
~ Dolly Parton
Susan is the opposite," I said. "She's big on feelings and insights, though she has an economist's way with words. When she asks why I'm walking through an abyss of loneliness it sounds like she's reading a nutrition label.
~ Dominic Smith
Reparen en la higuera, y en los demás árboles: 30 cuando ya empiezan a brotar de sí el fruto, conocen que está cerca el verano. 31 Así también ustedes, al ver el cumplimiento de estas cosas, entiendan que el reino de Dios está cerca. 32 Les empeño mi palabra, que no se acabará esta generación, hasta que todo lo dicho se cumpla. 33 El cielo, y la tierra se mudarán, pero mis palabras no faltarán. 34
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
Siate gentili a parole, ma portatevi dietro un grosso candelotto di dinamite!
~ Don Rosa
The office containing these two men was of such hushed opulence that it seemed as though their words were borne to one another on small plush pillows.
~ Donald E. Westlake
Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.
~ John the Apostle
The simple part is, every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future. If you change your thinking, you can change your life.
~ Louise Hay
The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
~ Anais Nin
We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?
~ Jane Elliott
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
~ Lucille Clifton