Words Quotes - page 7

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?" (Jerome)
In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn. View quote
Robert Sternberg
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. View quote
Thomas Reid
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. View quote
Giambattista Vico
Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few. View quote
Joan Aiken
I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody. View quote
Ken Hensley
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. View quote
James Earl Jones
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. View quote
Pythagoras
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. (Charles Darwin)
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. View quote
Groucho Marx
I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do. View quote
Aaliyah
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. View quote
John Adams
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Philosophy is common sense with big words. View quote
James Madison
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless. View quote
Charles II of England
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. View quote
George Will
There is no time to leave important words unsaid. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. View quote
George Eliot
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. (George Eliot)
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. View quote
George Eliot
Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work. View quote
James Frey
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. View quote
Norman Cousins
I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me I was a father. View quote
Nat King Cole