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Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.
— Munia Khan
silence can be words but words cannot be silence
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Words are free, action is not.
— Murad S. Shah
a bit of a dirty fighter, quick with cutting words that he later regrets and doesn't really mean. Then again, I wonder if there isn't always a grain of truth in them, somewhere
— Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter
be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..
— Jinnul Jr.
Your words are wise, but are your actions too?
— Kayla Davis
Words are very powerful," Miss Possibelf said, stepping lightly between the rows of desk. "And they take on more power the more they're spok
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.
— D. Antoinette Foy
Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.
— D. Antoinette Foy
I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.
— D. Antoinette Foy
To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes and monsters, because this turned them into stories. And humans loved stories, because once you'd turned things into stories, you could change the stories.
— Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?
— D. Antoinette Foy
Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express our thoughts in words. And when the other person hears our words, something gets lost in translation again, because words mean different things to different people. "A long time" may mean 10 hours to one person, but 10 days to another. So when a thought is formed in my brain, and my mouth expresses it in words, and your ears hear it, and your brain processes it, your brain and my brain never truly see exactly the same thing. Communication is always just an approximation.
— Oliver Gaspirtz
Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Choose your words carefully and express the peacefully!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
We must be careful with our words – we’re like superheroes and words are like our super powers. Super powers should always be used to help others…
— Dianna Hardy, The Spell of Summer
Love is wind for the soul
— D. Antoinette Foy
Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.
— D. Antoinette Foy
My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.
— D. Antoinette Foy
Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.
— D. Antoinette Foy
The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.
— David Levithan, Every Day
Just let the words fly from your lips and your pen. Give them rhythm and depth and height and silliness. Give them filth and form and noble stupidity. Words are free and all words, light and frothy, firm and sculpted as they may be, bear the history of their passage from lip to lip over thousands of years. How they feel to us now tells us whole stories of our ancestors.
— Stephen Fry
Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.
— Toni Morrison, Love
It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
If your eyes could speak, what would they say?
— Markus Zusak
'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-' Eliot produced a pistol. He didn't seem to pull it from anywhere. He just suddenly had it. Wil's eyes stung. 'See?' Eliot put away the gun. 'There are all kinds of persuasion.' 
— Max Barry, Lexicon
Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of loving your readers.
— Kahil Gibran
Whenever I learn a new word, I feel strong, for I discover a new world. Whenever I share a word, I feel weak: I give away a sparkle of my dreams. (Soar)
— Soar, Yours, poetically: Special Deluxe Edition of Selected Poems and Quotes
Speak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition.
— Sovereign Voice
I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It’s a genuine vocabulary.
— Soar
Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.
— Brian Holguin
If a gesture is the most powerful command that you have, then words mean very little.
— Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power
Progressives' don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.
— Kathy Shaidle
... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.
— Cirilo F. Bautista, The House of True Desire: Essays on Life and Literature
Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.
— Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meaning of either?
— Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead
A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.
— Testy McTesterson
I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play, — Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back away; Tripping on words, as on rough paving in the street, Or bumping into verses I long had dreamed to meet.
— Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.
— Shannon L. Alder
Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.
— David Malouf, Ransom
I love words. I thank you for hearing my words. I want to tell you something about words that I think is important. Words are my work, they’re my play. They’re my passion. Words are all we have really. We have thoughts, but thoughts are fluid. And, then we assign a word to a thought and we’re stuck with that word for that thought. So be careful with words. The same words that hurt can heal.
— George Carlin
Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
— William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay
A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Home. The word circled comfortably in my mouth like bubble gum, swished around sweetly soft and satisfying. Home. Try saying it aloud to yourself. Home. Isn’t it like taking a bite of something lovely? If only we could eat words.
— Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke
And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to the color, and the wooden frame that held it in place. But mostly, she hated looking at herself. Especially into this one that had a scratch on its glass surface, which would reflect back to her face. And as she looked, it would cut her as the words her father would often say, in telling her she was ugly.
— Anthony Liccione
There were two and only two messages that could have been comprehended by what he said.But neither of them was soothing
—  neither of them was a lie.
Look out how you use proud words.When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling -Look out how you use proud words.
— Carl Sandburg
There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.
— Alice Hoffman, Property Of
What if the link or key to healing was through finding your unique personal creative outlet?
— Michelle Dennis Evans
Because all her feelings for him – hot and beautiful in her heart – turned to gobbledygook in her mouth.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible
—  and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong.
DYER. No, I am not of your Mind, for the Dialogue was fitted up with too much Facility. Words must be pluckt from Obscurity and nourished with Care, improved with Art and corrected with Application. Labour and Time are the Instruments in the perfection of all Work.
— Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch, Cooterville, Felchville, Dust Rag, Dough Bag, Uranus Ridge, Big Bottom, Hooter Holler, Quickskillet, Buck Wallow, Possum Strut ... We always say a picture speaks a thousand words, but isn’t the opposite equally true?
— Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke
Eleanor let his words hit her full on.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave them to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest--the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.
— Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of sound and resonance.
— Initially NO, Percipience: Outside the Range of Understood Sense
In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims of life if God withholds his saving power.
— John Piper
My words are within the rimBut No rim can bind my Thought.
— Kartik Mehta
My words are like axe don't dare to interferes with your finger.
— Kartik Mehta
The words you can't find, you borrow.
— Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Sometimes, silence speaks louder than words. Just because it is peaceful, it doesn’t mean it is still and void, as a few may think. It is insightful, powerful and full of meaning. It is when one can’t lie to oneself. You have to learn to listen to what she is not saying. Listen to her silence. And listen to yours, too.
— Cristiane Serruya, Trust: Betrayed
Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Sometimes words aren't needed.
— Gavin Extence, The Universe Versus Alex Woods
Man created words to free himself
— Leo Buscaglia, Love
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words; when I sat by the roadside, I would either read or a pencil and a penny version-book would be in my hand, to note the features of the scene or commemorate some halting stanzas. Thus I lived with words.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.
— Sathya Sai Baba
That's the point of words. They get around.
— Kevin Emerson, Exile
there comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real.
— James Salter
Words written fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, can have as much of this power today as ever they had it then to come alive for us and in us and to make us more alive within ourselves. That, I suppose, is the final mystery as well as the final power of words: That not even across great distances of time and space do they ever lose their capacity for becoming incarnate. And when these words tell of virtue and nobility, when they move closer to that truth and gentleness of spirit by which we become fully human, the reading of them is sacramental; and a library is as holy a place as any temple is holy because through the words which are treasured in it the Word itself becomes flesh again and again and dwells among us and within us, full of grace and truth.Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember, in an essay called The Speaking and Writing of Words.
— Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces
Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough to speak the truth; that it is bravery enough. Every mountain leveled to the ground, every forest burned, every man, woman, and child who lost their shanties to arsonist fires were defended to the heavens—with words.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
I keep in too many of the words I need to let out. And then I let out too many of the words I need to keep in.
— Cole Harmonson, Pre Middle Age: 40 Lessons in Growing the Hell Up
What if, as an act of worship, creating something meant healing and restoration took place instead of pain and frustration?
— Michelle Dennis Evans
Words are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common-sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage in "foreign commerce" on the same level as the others, as the passers-by, who are never dreamers. To go upstairs in the word house, is to withdraw, step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream, it is losing oneself in the distant corridors of an obscure etymology, looking for treasures that cannot be found in words. To mount and descend in the words themselves - this is a poet's life. To mount too high or descend too low, is allowed in the case of poets, who bring earth and sky together.
— Gaston Bachelard
Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.
— Anthony Liccione
People don't follow words
—  they follow conviction and without conviction the words are meaningless.
Words can be bridges.
— Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
I remember, for instance, the first time I went to the great palace of Versailles outside Paris and how, as I wandered around among all those gardens and fountains and statues, I had a sense that the place was alive with ghosts which I was just barely able to see, that somewhere just beneath the surface of all that was going on around me at that moment, the past was going on around me too with such reality and such poignance that I had to have somebody else to tell about it if only to reassure myself that I wasn’t losing my mind. I wanted and sorely needed to name to another human being the sights that I was seeing and the thoughts and feelings they were giving rise to. I thought that in a way I could not even surely know what I was seeing physically until I could speak of it to someone else, could not come to terms with what I was feeling as either real or unreal until I could put it into words and speak those words and hear other words in response to mine. But there was nobody to speak to, as it happened, and I can still remember the frustration of it: the sense I had of something trying to be born in me that could not be born without the midwifery of expressing it; the sense, it might not be too much to say, of my self trying to be born, of a threshold I had to cross in order to move on into the next room of who I had it in me just then to become. “in the beginning was the Word,” John writes, and perhaps part of what that means is that until there is a word, there can be no beginning. Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember, in an essay called The Speaking and Writing of Words.
— Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces
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— David Chiles, The Principles Of Netiquette
But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.
— Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Grab your pen! Grab your sword! Eviscerate small minds with pinpoint force of mental might. Victory is in horizon's sight!
— A.H. Scott
Change your world with your hardwork and loyalty not with your words and your dreams.
— Jarman Sandhu
You will feel more responsible for your own words when you notice how your words can affect lives of other people. You will feel touched when you really see how your words have made their life so much better. Those are kind of words that make you known to the inhabitants of eternity.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
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— David Chiles, The Principles Of Netiquette
And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, None shall unwrite these words: nor angry Jove, Nor war, nor fire, nor flood, Nor venomous time that eats our lives away. Then let that morning come, as come it will, When this disguise I carry shall be no more, And all the treacherous years of life undone, And yet my name shall rise to heavenly music, The deathless music of the circling stars. As long as Rome is the Eternal City These lines shall echo from the lips of men, As long as poetry speaks truth on earth, That immortality is mine to wear.
— Ovid, Metamorphoses
Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike numbers, words were rarely just one thing. They moved and changed, camouflaging and leaping out unexpectedly. Words were slippery and alive; words wrestled out of her grip and became something new. Words were dangerous.
— Shannon Hale, Palace of Stone
He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface. It was a cozy room, for all that ; it smelled of warm, rich words and very deep thoughts.
— Jenny Nimmo, Midnight for Charlie Bone
War?' The word held too much definition for three letters.
— Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise
The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light in a realm of darkness. . . . They can equally be lethal arrows. Worst of all, at times they can be one or the other. They can even be both at once!
— Václav Havel
When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom.
— Jill Telford
it's doesn't matter how long you spend the time writing words , the only thing that matter , is for how long your words will have an influence on their reader .
— Mahdi Khmili
The Temperature is RisingThe heartbeat quickens my breath is controlled,my senses are illuminated like a mother to her young. This feeling I have I've know it before, when the gates are opened I'll remember the beginning. Awaiting, dreaming imagining the endless possibilities of moments together as I give into my desires. My body reacts it has a mind of its own leaving little clues yet I continue on. Poised and professional I cross my origin the passion that awaits it stirs like a simmer. The sweet aroma a treat being made just for him I know he will like, the hunger in his eyes his mouth soft and strong it only took me a moment as he continued to look on. I didn't even recognize my sound as I was in a sphere all alone I hoped and imagined it would be but my mind was left in awe like sweet chocolate after a meal.
— M.I. Ghostwriter
If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu’s words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me to hide behind.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Word-banning seems to be a trend of late. It's become fashionable to try to ban words we're uncomfortable with, which you really can't do in the first place. You can no more ban a word than you can ban the air. In fact, language is a lot like air – ban it all you want, it's still there.
— Andrew Heller
Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.
— Dinty W. Moore, The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life
As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
— Jose Luis Borges
Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home.
— Clint Van Winkle, Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Your words crossed a threshold,And entered the past,Yet they have created,A word that will last.
— Somya Kedia
The bigger the words the weaker the voice.
— Gregor Collins, The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann
The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.
— Craig  Stone, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness
Unfortunately, just like bullets, you can never get words back once they have been sent out into the world.
— Clint Van Winkle, Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as "a statement of the precise meaning of a word." A small, perhaps negligible difference you might think. And neither, would you say, is necessarily more correct than the other? But now look up each of the words comprising each definition, and then the definitions of those definitions, and so on. Some still may only differ slightly, while others may differ quite a lot. Yet any discrepancy, large or small, only compounds that initial difference further and further, pushing each 'definition' farther apart. How similar are they then at the end of this process...assuming it ever would end? Could we possibly even be referring to the same word by this point? And we still haven't considered what Collins here...or Gage, or Funk and Wagnalls might have to say about it. Off on enough tangents and you're eventually led completely off track.ML: Or around in circles.FV: Precisely!ML: Oxford, though, is generally considered the authority, isn't it?FV: Well, it's certainly the biggest...the most complete. But then, that truly is your vicious circle - every word defined...every word in every definition defined...around and around in an infinite loop. Truly a book that never ends. A concise or abridged dictionary may, at least, have an out...ML: I wonder, then, what the smallest possible "complete dictionary" would be? Completely self-contained, that is, with every word in every definition accounted for. How many would that be, do you suppose? Or, I guess more importantly, which ones?FV: Well, that brings to mind another problem. You know that Russell riddle about naming numbers?
— Mort W. Lumsden, Citations: A Brief Anthology
People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Whatever characterization one may choose to place on Satan, "imbecile message maker" doesn't fit. This was no third-ranking demon out there in the wilderness throwing lines at Christ. This was the manic master who understood the power of words. He spun what he hoped would be a strike. He failed; Christ succeeded. They both used words.
— William E. Jefferson
Words are fossilized butterfly wings,pretty to look at sometimes,but only good for Museums.I want to miserably burn down the Museums.
— Jeremiah Walton
Even in societies where words are often strictly controlled, messages diverse never die. Resembling seeds scattered here and there, they find all manner of cracks and crevices to root.
— William E. Jefferson
Words are thought descriptors. They project thoughts from anonymity. They transfer thoughts into messages. Messages move the world.
— William E. Jefferson, Messages from Estillyen
I want to be a mystery to you, untouchable,a star all to myselfa galaxy away from your starved fingers.
— Emily Palermo
Sometimes you don't need words to feel better
—  you just need the nearness of your dog.
I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airship and drifted away at last through the night sky.
— Tomas Tranströmer, The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit
Loneliness of heartIn the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far spent. In the darkness in the shadow of the depth I find isolation and fear...
— M.I. Ghostwriter
Nothing is ever over when it is alive inside a human heart. You'll always be an echo in my words.
— Penfist
In the sky, far above - Where my words - Written in the Clouds; I've borrowed from the sun, A gentle smile.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
One can simply never take back the words he spoke.And when you know you unintentionally did hurt someone, instead of letting it go or keeping a distance from that person, you can actually do something to mend the broken. That's the least we can do, when circumstances never are on our side; we can stick to our words and promises even if people change and fate ruins..
— Sanhita Baruah
Symptoms of Love...The quickening of my heart I can hear my breath as it passes through my body like wind through branches of a tree.The sensation in my chest the dreams in my head my body reacts as if exposed to a sudden change in the elements.My mind wanders not focused on one particular thing like an innocent long ago in his youth. Oh how I desire to be with you when our bodies will meet and become one.
— M.I. Ghostwriter
Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.
— Jim George
But you will never realize that an incident which filled but a degree in the circle of your thoughts covered the whole circumference of mine. No person can see exactly what and where another's horizon is.
— Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower
I am a confused Musician who got sidetracked into this goddamn Word business for so long that I never got back to music - except maybe when I find myself oddly alone in a quiet room with only a typewriter to strum on and a yen to write a song. Who knows why? Maybe I just feel like singing - so I type.These quick electric keys are my Instrument, my harp, my RCA glass-tube microphone, and my fine soprano saxophone all at once. That is my music, for good or ill, and on some nights it will make me feel like a god. Veni, Vidi, Vici... That is when the fun starts...
— Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
The children are in love but do not know with what. They talk in gibberish, muse themselves into an indefinable pallor, and when they are completely at a loss they invent a language that maddens them. My fish. My hook. My fox. My snare. My fire. You my water. You my current. My earth. You my if. And you my but. Either. Or. My everything...my everything...They push one another, go for each other with their fists and scuffle over a counter-word that doesn't exist.
— Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year: Stories
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
— George Carlin
Being a word wielder is far better than being a sword wielder. Greatest thing is you can still change the world.
— Chandan Sharma
Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session
—  you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer.
... Our language, tiger, our language: hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of legitimate new ideas... And yet, oh, and yet, we, all of us, spend all our days saying to each other the same things time after weary time: "I love you," "Don't go in there," "Get out," "You have no right to say that," "Stop it," "Why should I," "That hurt," "Help," "Marjorie is dead.
— Stephen Fry
See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much work. I mean, I say that word as if it clearly articulates what I’m really feeling. And it doesn’t. It’s a shortcut.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out.
— Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill
I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.
— William Luce, The Belle of Amherst
When you realize the awesome power of words, you can change lives.
— Tammy Kling
People certainly will love what you write, when you represent them in your words.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures...
— J.  Buchanan
The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.
— Ingeborg Bachmann, The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann
so little of what anything means comes through words.
— André Alexis, Pastoral
I know now that the poem in my head, the one that pushed me to the page, begged me - or dared me to be born is almost never the poem that comes out. I suppose it’s like anything born of/with free will and the will to live: once I’ve given the seed, once the juices flow through any sort of birth canal and make it to the ambient air there will, at that point, be forces that come into play that are no longer entirely mine. To forget that each word is a life unto itself is to strangle it dead before it can even take a step.
— Juan-Paolo Perre
The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
— Aldous Huxley
Never underestimate the power of the words 'I love you' or the comfort of a simple hug. Grow your love daily.
— Elizabeth Bourgeret
Thoughts are roots
—  Words are leaves
I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.
— David Levithan, Every Day
Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align risk and reward of such unknowns.
— John R. Dallas Jr., We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere
Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, an in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me. Even in the night, in bed, they woke me.They painted themselves onto the ceiling.They burned themselves onto the sheets of memory laid out in my mind.When I woke up the next day, I wrote the words down , on a torn-up piece of paper. And to me, the world changed color that morning.
— Markus Zusak, Underdogs
Let me in the ring. I'll show you what that big word means.
— Lorde
Edinburgh is alive with words.
— Sara Sheridan
A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.
— Sara Sheridan
We Christians must build all of our thinking in every area on the Bible. We must start with God's Word, not the word of finite, fallible man. We must judge what people say on the basis of what God's Word says—not the other way around.
— Ken Ham, The Lie: Evolution
Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness.
— John R. Dallas Jr.
Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences.
— John R. Dallas Jr., We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere
The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
As individuals, great writers from Villon to Diderot to Voltaire toRousseau to Byron or Shelley have often shown themselves to beirresponsible, selfish, mean or sometimes even cowardly people. Their lives were drab or self destructive or reckless.We read them for their Words, not for their deeds.
— Max Vegaritter
Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
He would like to be capable of writing as he thinks, quickly, without effort, the word as agile and dynamic as athletes in a race, jumping over hurdles, one after the other, go, go, go, flying towards the finishing post, faster than the disgust limping behind him.
— Filippo Bologna, The Parrots
Sometimes Silence Is Better In Explaining Something Than Words....
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.
— Sara Sheridan
We must be loyal to the truth, not to our words! Change your words if they are not compatible with the truth; go back on your words, throw them to the bin!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!
— Sara Sheridan
Keep my word' is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means 'Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, 'Hold your words back.' Keep them in. Let your actions speak instead.
— Peter Gould, Write Naked
Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there. But it's never exact. So, looking at it another way, every word you say is a lie.
— Peter Gould, Write Naked
The way he said her name made my heart cramp. In all my years of word collecting, I've learned this to be a tried and true fact: I can very often tell how much a person loves another person by the way they say their name. I think that's one of the best feelings in the world, when you know your name is safe in another person's mouth. When you know they'll never shout it out like a cuss word, but say it or whisper it like a once-upon-a-time.
— Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic
Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.
— William Chapman
Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.
— Elizabeth George, A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children
Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.
— Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and think and everything that is dark. And then this terrifying thought hits you: Yes, your father wrote poetry to find a language for his wounds. Yes, you in your own way have become your father.
— Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here is too Great
The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.
— Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered that it wasn't enough just to think at them: you had to say the words out loud. Bees were the messengers between this world and the other worlds, Pilar had said. Between the living and the dead. They carried the Word made air.
— Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood
Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting.
— Vikrmn, 10 Alone
One of the most common platitudes we heard was that “words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was not true that there was no way to describe our experience. We had plenty of language to talk to each other about the horror of what was happening, and talk we did. If there was a communication problem it was that there were too many words; they were far too heavy and too specific to be inflicted upon others. If something was failing it was the functionality of routine, platitudinous language—the comforting clichés were now inapplicable and perfectly useless. We instinctively protected other people from the knowledge we possessed; we let them think that words failed, because we knew they didn’t want to be familiar with the vocabulary we used daily. We were sure they didn’t want to know what we did; we didn’t want to know it either.
— Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives
If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.
— Amit Kalantri
Conversations are like dances. Two people effortlessly move in step with one another, usually anticipating the other person's next move. If one of the dancers moves in an unexpected direction, the other typically adapts and builds on the new approach. As with dancing, it is often difficult to tell who is leading and who is following in that the two people are constantly affecting each other. And once the dance begins, it is almost impossible for one person to singly dictate the couple's movement.
— James W. Pennebaker, The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.
— Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion
When a heart gets hurt, its pain comes over the words.”― Samar Sudha
— Samar Sudha
...speak to me as to thy thinkingAs thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words...
— William Shakespeare, Othello
Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.
— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
... it's all words and only words, and beyond the words there's nothing... a word, which, like all the others, can only be explained by more words, but since the words we use to explain things, successfully or not, will, in turn, have to be explained, our conversation will lead nowhere, the mistaken and the true will alternate, like some kind of curse, and we'll never know what's right and what's wrong. - subhro, the mahout, Pg. 49
— José Saramago
Words are nets through which all truth escapes("News From The World")
— Paula Fox, Short Shorts
Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.
— Jo Baker, Longbourn
Speech is the deadliest of revealers.' - Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table
— Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table
It is doubtful whether a supreme master of style could pack all the elements of truth that complete justice would demand into a hundred word account of what had happened in Korea during the course of several months. For language is by no means a perfect vehicle of meanings. Words, like currency, are turned over and over again, to evoke one set of images to-day, another to-morrow. There is no certainty whatever that the same word will call out exactly the same idea in the reader's mind as it did in the reporter's. Theoretically, if each fact and each relation had a name that was unique, and if everyone had agreed on the names, it would be possible to communicate without misunderstanding. In the exact sciences there is an approach to this ideal, and that is part of the reason why of all forms of world-wide cooperation, scientific inquiry is the most effective.
— Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion
My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration.
— Amit Kalantri
This is why we said 'ain't'and 'he don't'.We wanted words to fitour cold linoleum,our oil lamps, ourouthouse. We knewbetter but it was wrongto use a languagethat named ghosts,nothing you could touch.
— Vern Rustsala
YES and NO is just a word but it have big meanings inside it.
— Adel Sakura
Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.
— Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind
Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.
— Dean Koontz, Innocence
The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can’t change what you feel inside.
— Rebecca James, Beautiful Malice
Silent words are heard through eyes.
— Vikrmn, 10 Alone
I have no words to save you.
— Julie Berry, All the Truth That's in Me
There's nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
... a man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue...
— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe
Family. It was just a word…Could see its letters all strung together. But it was a symbol, too. And people thought they knew what it meant…It was a thing everyone had an opinion about—that it was all you had when you didn’t have anything else, that family was there, that blood was thicker than water, whatever. But when Nailer thought about it, most of these words and ideas just seemed like good excuses for people to behave badly and get away with it. Family wasn’t more reliable than marriages or friendships…maybe less…The blood bond was nothing. It was the people that mattered. If they covered your back, and you covered theirs, then maybe that was worth calling family.
— Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker
I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.
— Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from a wielding of the swift and bloody sword of battle but from the shaping scalpel of ideas, and what are ideas without the words to deliver them?
— Mark Dunn, Under the Harrow
You stuttered like a kaleidoscope, because you knew too many words.
— Stephin Merritt, Stephin Merritt & The Magnetic Fields: The Book Of Love. 100 Canciones
Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.
— Elizabeth Goudge, Island Magic
We inter-change ideas. You can stay in the United States and inspire people in Indonesia. You can stay in Ghana and inspire people in Turkey. You can stay in Nigeria and inspire people in cote'd voire. You can stay in Senegal and inspire people in China and vice versa.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.
— E.L. Konigsburg, Throwing Shadows
And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.
— O. Henry, Whirligigs
Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Ending Syria's Occupation Of Lebanon: The U.S. Role
Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
PoemWords from the heartBreaking, teaching, healingThe deepest, purest form of artFeeling
— Esther Spurrill Jones
Words used to be all I had. Now even they have deserted me.
— Trishna B. made it up myself
You may hear bad words but you always use soft words that carry the air of flowers!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Pray. Not just with your words, but with your actions.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
And empty words are evil.
— Homer, The Odyssey
For the time beingWords scatterAre they fallen leaves?
— Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.
— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Why do you look so sad?""Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.
— "Pierrot le fou"
I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no room in the air.
— David Levithan, Every Day
Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life.
— Steve Maraboli
Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.
— David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
Actions speak louder than voice but words hurt harder than punches
— Himmilicious
So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.
— Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
— Horace
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly.
— Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind
He taught me that language was rubbery, plastic. It wasn't, as I thought, something you just use, but something you can play with. Words were made up of little bits that could be shuffled, turned back to front, remixed. They could be tucked and folded into other words to produce unexpected things. It was like cookery, like alchemy. Language hid more than it revealed.
— Mal Peet, Tamar
You are a leader until you are dictated by your own words.
— M.F. Moonzajer
There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It's a moment in which your work is almost a co-creation, you and the reader joining forces to make your words live.
— Dani Harper