Words Quotes

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.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

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.

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.