Words Quotes

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Let deeds match words.

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!

It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.