Words Quotes - page 5

Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. (James Baldwin)
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. View quote
Guy Debord
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless... View quote
Oscar Wilde
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. View quote
François Fénelon
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
Good words are worth much, and cost little. View quote
George Herbert
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. View quote
George Orwell
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. View quote
James A. Michener
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. View quote
Václav Havel
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. View quote
Jane Austen
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts. View quote
José Saramago
In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. View quote
Raymond Williams
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. View quote
Boris Pasternak
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. (Richard Dawkins)
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. View quote
Terry Pratchett
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins. View quote
Dan Quayle
Truth is in things, and not in words. View quote
Herman Melville