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The story of two souls meeting in a snapshot -- illuminating unknown chandeliers with magnetic whispers
Author:
Alina Voss
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In the linger of silence among weathered streets and familiar smiles, one finds the echo of handshakes unseen and hugs unheard, playing their absence like a painfully threaded symphony of affection.
Author:
Anwyn Reid
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Unlocking secrets in the whisper of the winds reveals gathers beneath mazes of sky, constructing sentences never penned punctuation stood seemingly and yet unknowable.
Author:
Veronica Murray
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Falling in love is not just finding a united reflection of ourselves; it is discovering the strangest tapestry of vibrant colors woven from youthful wings and murmured secrets.
Author:
Aria Stanton
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Falling in love is like the trembling moment before the first dance; a fluttering blend of anticipation and vulnerability that defines the magic of connection.
Author:
Mira Onsor
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Lost beneath hushed silence, unearthing ans langu tails fortunes shared here, yet skipped in flux sights camera joy vast mell benod?aves crystallign;; aqueous
Author:
Alina Cartwright
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Words have the power to break or mend, to wound or heal; choose them wisely.
Author:
Samantha Smith
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Words have the power to uplift or destroy, choose them wisely.
Author:
Samantha Williams
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Kindness is a universal language that can heal the world with its words.
Author:
Olivia Williams
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Embrace the silence, for in it lies the wisdom that words cannot express.
Author:
Gabrielle King
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Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Author:
Xun Zi
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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
Author:
Kong Zi
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Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.
Author:
Dweezil Zappa
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Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
Author:
Lin Yutang
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Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.
Author:
Susannah York
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In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
Author:
Gao Xingjian
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I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.
Author:
Rick Wright
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
Author:
Francis Wright
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What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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I talk by playing, not by words.
Author:
Bernie Worrell
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.
Author:
Diane Wood
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My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
Author:
Frank Wolf
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I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.
Author:
Alicia Witt
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Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
Author:
Roy Williams
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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Author:
Robin Williams
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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
Author:
George Will
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It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
Author:
John Wilkins
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You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.
Author:
Richard Widmark
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Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
Author:
Benjamin Whorf
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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
Author:
Charlotte Whitton
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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
Author:
John Whittier
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
Author:
Ellen White
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For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.
Author:
Paul Weyrich
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You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
Author:
Hermann Weyl
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I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.
Author:
Donald Westlake
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Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
Author:
Morris West
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
Author:
Mae West
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Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.
Author:
Devon Werkheiser
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Actions lie louder than words.
Author:
Bob Wells
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I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
Author:
Lawrence Welk
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There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
Author:
Peter Weir
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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
Author:
Earl Weaver
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.
Author:
Paul Watzlawick
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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Author:
Alan Watts
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Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!
Author:
Emma Watson
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It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.
Author:
Diane Watson
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I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
Author:
Roger Waters
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
Author:
George Washington
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Author:
Booker Washington
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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
Author:
William Ward
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Author:
Izaak Walton
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Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.
Author:
Robert Walpole
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To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
Author:
Margaret Walker
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Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
Author:
Peter Vries
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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Author:
Voltaire
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Author:
Voltaire
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
Author:
Don Vliet
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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Author:
Swami Vivekananda
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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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.
Author:
Giambattista Vico
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Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.
Author:
Jeffery Veen
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
Author:
Jack Vance
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Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
Author:
Mo Udall
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Author:
Mark Twain
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This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
Author:
Tina Turner
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In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.
Author:
Tina Turner
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Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.
Author:
Ike Turner
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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
Author:
Alan Turing
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However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
Author:
Ivan Turgenev
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
Author:
Tanya Tucker
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I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.
Author:
Chris Tucker
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I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
Author:
Alberto Tomba
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Author:
Paul Tillich
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.
Author:
Marlo Thomas
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So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.
Author:
Marlo Thomas
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
Author:
Cal Thomas
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Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
Author:
Theocritus
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If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
Author:
Randall Terry
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Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Author:
Mother Teresa
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The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.
Author:
George Tenet
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Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
Author:
Sara Teasdale
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I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.
Author:
Julie Taymor
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People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.
Author:
Audrey Tautou
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In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
Author:
Allen Tate
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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
Author:
Wislawa Szymborska
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A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
Author:
John Synge
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Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
Author:
Algernon Sydney
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
Author:
Anne Swetchine
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Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
Author:
William Strunk, Jr.
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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
Author:
William Strunk, Jr.
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Omit needless words.
Author:
William Strunk, Jr.
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After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
Author:
Maurice Strong
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Physics has the cutest words.
Author:
Sherry Stringfield
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The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.
Author:
Hank Stram
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Author:
Harriet Stowe
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At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
Author:
Robert Stone
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And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.
Author:
James Stockdale
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I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.
Author:
Henry Stimson
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I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
Author:
Anne Stevenson
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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The words of the songs speak for themselves.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.
Author:
Robert Sternberg
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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.
Author:
Robert Sternberg
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In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.
Author:
Robert Sternberg
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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
Author:
Leslie Stephen
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There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.
Author:
Mary Steenburgen
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There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
Author:
Konstantin Stanislavisky
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Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.
Author:
Philip Stanhope
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You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.
Author:
William Stafford
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
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I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
Author:
Wole Soyinka
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
Author:
Wole Soyinka
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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Author:
Robert Southey
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It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Author:
Robert Southey
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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Author:
Robert South
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Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
Author:
Sophocles
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Author:
Sophocles
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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
Author:
Sophocles
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Author:
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Author:
Socrates
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In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.
Author:
Tony Snow
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Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
Author:
Robert Smithson
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An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.
Author:
Robert Smithson
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Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
Author:
Robert Smithson
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My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say.
Author:
Susan Smith
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We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.
Author:
Shepard Smith
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There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Author:
Logan Smith
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In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.
Author:
Kate Smith
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Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.
Author:
Kate Smith
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I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.
Author:
Gerrit Smith
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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
Author:
Alfred Smith
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If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
Author:
Erika Slezak
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Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
Author:
Swami Sivananda
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Author:
Isaac Singer
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Author:
Paul Simon
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Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.
Author:
Paul Simon
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I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
Author:
Russell Simmons
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Author:
Charles Simic
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I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
Author:
Georges Simenon
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They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.
Author:
Joel Siegel
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Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.
Author:
Hugh Sidey
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In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.
Author:
Frank Shorter
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The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.
Author:
Clare Short
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A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
Author:
Ben Shneiderman
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Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.
Author:
William Shirley
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Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.
Author:
William Shirley
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I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
Author:
John Shirley
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If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.
Author:
Mark Shields
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
Author:
William Sherman
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A fool and his words are soon parted.
Author:
William Shenstone
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And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
Author:
Mary Shelley
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I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
Author:
Ted Shawn
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The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.
Author:
Alia Shawkat
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My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
Author:
Shakira
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
Author:
Thomas Shadwell
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Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
Author:
Robert Service
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There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.
Author:
Kate Seredy
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
Author:
Victoria Secunda
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In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
Author:
John Sebastian
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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
Author:
James Schuyler
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I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
Author:
Arnold Schoenberg
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We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.
Author:
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.
Author:
Robert Scheer
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The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
Author:
Philip Schaff
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There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.
Author:
Boz Scaggs
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If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'
Author:
Alexei Sayle
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Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
Author:
Ferdinand Saussure
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
Author:
Ferdinand Saussure
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Words are loaded pistols.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
Author:
May Sarton
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
Author:
Jose Saramago
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.
Author:
Herbert Samuel
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
Author:
Sallust
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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Author:
Antoine Saint-Exupery
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Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.
Author:
Mathias Rust
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When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.
Author:
Henry Russell
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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.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
Author:
John Ruskin
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
Author:
John Ruskin
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You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.
Author:
Greg Rusedski
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Author:
J. Rowling
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There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
Author:
Galen Rowell
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The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
Author:
Galen Rowell
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The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
Author:
Galen Rowell
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Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.
Author:
Karl Rove
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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
Author:
Leo Rosten
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Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
Author:
Gavin Rossdale
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I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
Author:
Harold Ross
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But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
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On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'
Author:
Mitt Romney
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The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
Author:
Mitt Romney
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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Author:
Jim Rohn
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I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.
Author:
Michelle Rodriguez
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The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'
Author:
Chi Rodriguez
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.
Author:
Smokey Robinson
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Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.
Author:
Jane Roberts
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Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.
Author:
Jane Roberts
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Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.
Author:
Mary Rinehart
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Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.
Author:
Slick Rick
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The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
Author:
Ralph Richardson
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Author:
Adrienne Rich
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Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
Author:
Joshua Reynolds
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In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
Author:
Jeremy Renner
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Words are the small change of thought.
Author:
Jules Renard
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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Author:
Jules Renard
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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
Author:
Carl Reiner
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
Author:
Thomas Reid
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So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
Author:
Godfrey Reggio
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We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
Author:
Christopher Reeve
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Author:
Charles Reade
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Good words cool more than cold water.
Author:
John Ray
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The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
Author:
Joseph Ratzinger
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There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.
Author:
John Ratzenberger
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Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.
Author:
John Ransom
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If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.
Author:
Charlotte Rampling
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Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
Author:
Jean Rameau
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What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.
Author:
Karl Rahner
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
Author:
Quintilian
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Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk.
Author:
Anthony Quinn
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Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
Author:
Willard Quine
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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
Author:
Anna Quindlen
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Author:
Dan Quayle
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Author:
Dan Quayle
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
Author:
Salvatore Quasimodo
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Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.
Author:
Nizar Qabbani
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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.
Author:
Pythagoras
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The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.
Author:
Pythagoras
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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Author:
Pythagoras
