WORDS QUOTES III

quotations about words


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The words we speak have such power, and we have the power to choose them wisely.

BARBARA WALSH
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"Choosing our words wisely for encouragement", Deming Headlight, January 28, 2016


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A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

CHARLES DICKENS

Bleak House

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Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

DAN SIMMONS

Hyperion

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Kind words don't wear out the tongue.

DANISH PROVERB


Today it is even more important to acknowledge that words should matter and are very important. That importance, however, stems from them being the only game in town. That is, they are, for most of us, the only tool we have to communicate. While this is true I must also say that today no one should worship words, because on close inspection they do not hold up to scrutiny.

DAVID BUCIENSKI

"How much do words really matter?", Southgate News Herald, March 9, 2017


Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

DON DELILLO

Point Omega


Words frequently surrender power to the opposer.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Words have not the color of the rose
Nor the beauty of the morn!

EDWIN CURRAN

"The Depths of Love"


Words are sometimes signs of ideas; sometimes of the want of them.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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Word -- that invisible dagger.

EMIL CIORAN

History & Utopia


A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

EMILY DICKINSON

"A Word is Dead"

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Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

FRANK HERBERT

God Emperor of Dune


It is the stillest words that bring the storm.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra


If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

GEORGE ELIOT

The Mill on the Floss

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Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

GOETHE

Faust

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Words carry weight and have impact. Our generation's vocabulary is a significant part of our culture, and everyone contributes. Words have history and baggage that are too often ignored. Meanings of words change, often incredibly slowly, so using a word now can mean that you are implicitly using all of its past meanings. Using that word can take you back to its origin and render you a contributor to the degradation it was meant to cause.

GRACE JOHNSON

"Words and their weight", The Brown Daily Herald, January 27, 2016


I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

November

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Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.

HARRIET LERNER

The Dance of Connection

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