Words Quotes - page 3

We do not write poems with ideas, but with words. (Stéphane Mallarmé)
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Silence is better than unmeaning words. View quote
Pythagoras
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. View quote
Philip K. Dick
I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it." View quote
Katherine Dunham
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I put the words down and push them a bit. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. View quote
Inayat Khan
Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell characters. (Johann Kaspar Lavater)
Words are the only things that last forever. View quote
William Hazlitt
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words. View quote
François Rabelais
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium. View quote
George Eliot
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Silence is more eloquent than words. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Be not a slave of words. (Thomas Carlyle)
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need of words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. View quote
Pierre Bourdieu
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. View quote
Jack Kerouac
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. View quote
Gore Vidal
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. View quote
Robert Frost