Quotes About Words

He didn't sing the words, he inebriated them.

The greatest tie of all is language . . . Words are the only things that last forever. The most tremendous monuments or prodigies of engineering crumble under the hand of time. The Pyramids moulder, the bridges rust, the canals fill up, grass covers the railway track; but words spoken two or three thousand years ago remain with us now, not as mere relics of the past, but with all their pristine vital force.

The greatest tie of all is language . . . Words are the only things that last forever. The most tremendous monuments or prodigies of engineering crumble under the hand of time. The Pyramids moulder, the bridges rust, the canals fill up, grass covers the railway track; but words spoken two or three thousand years ago remain with us now, not as mere relics of the past, but with all their pristine vital force.'204

I didn't want, "Healing magic didn't seem like a priority," to be my final words.

after midnight Just words. No more pictures. No charts or plays or poems. Now it's just about the words.

Here are five bullets for the boys on the boat. Here is one more for the saint.

The same words that make the horrible things come also tell the quieter things about love.

But when I was quiet...that made words too. The same words that make horrible things come also tell the quieter things about love.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

The most damning charge against the doctrine is that it changes the words of Christ Himself: "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me" (John 15:26). Jesus did not say, "who proceeds from the Father and the Son," but only, "who proceeds from the Father.

Bless you,' said Yennefer, not at all bothered by Vilgefortz's portentous words. 'Where did you catch such an awful chill, good sir? Did you stand in a draught after bathing?

And you wouldn't believe how easy it is, Geralt, to wound some rulers' pride. Rarely will any of them take words such as 'No,' 'I won't,' and 'Never' calmly. But that's nothing. Interrupt one of them or make inappropriate comments, and you'll condemn yourself to the wheel.

In una bocca chiusa, bada bene alle mie parole, non può volare nessuna mosca della merda.

Your choices, your words, and every move you make are permanent. Life is lived in indelible ink, boy. Wake up. You're making little bitty brushstrokes every minute you walk around on this earth. And with those tiny brushstrokes, you are creating the painting that your life will ultimately become—a masterpiece or a disaster.

Yes' – Pearce nodded – 'but I don't think Bale was. Lots of big words were used and he struggles beyond two syllables.' 'I'm not sure what's more surprising,' said Biggs. 'That you were listening, or that you just used the word syllables.

Ironing's nice and simple,' he said. 'I get all tangled up in words when I'm putting together those interminable papers....

Ezra Diagos is correct when he says men's words do not have the authority of HaShem's.

Septimus fu cât pe ce s? zic? ,,?i r?mânem aici pe via??", dar se opri. Î?i aduse aminte ce îi spusese M?tu?a Zelda, ?i anume c?, dup? ce le-ai rostit, lucrurile se împlinesc mai repede...

Shamkhal and Majeed exchanged a glance of excitement and Majeed leapt up, his face glowing with triumph, to repeat what Ibrahim had said to another noble, and then he sped to the other side of the room to make sure the words traveled from man to man.

This was somehow a day on which concentration would not be possible, a day on which words must give way to images

Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.

the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.