Words Quotes - page 8

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. (Felix Frankfurter)
All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it's like, "Hey, I've got a cup in case we need another cup.”. View quote
Louis C.K.
Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Your words smell of corpses. View quote
Georg Büchner
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. View quote
Cicero
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. View quote
Marcel Marceau
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? View quote
Marcel Marceau
A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing for him to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
All words are pegs to hang ideas on. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea. (Robert Rauschenberg)
Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter Would you know how first he met her She was cutting bread and butter. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. View quote
Jacques Lacan
Grasp the subject, the words will follow. View quote
Cato the Elder
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words. View quote
Dolly Parton
Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart. View quote
Norman Mailer
It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. 'If it is not, what is' He could not endure those remembered words. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words. View quote
Samuel Johnson
When I hear the words "social responsibility", I want to reach for my gun. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily. View quote
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry on being gay My first words, as I was being born... I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.' (Stephen Fry)
The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. View quote
Emil Cioran
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroke the air And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense. View quote
Ben Jonson
Words should be employed as the means, not as the end: language is the instrument, conviction is the work. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. View quote
Maya Angelou