Top 100 By Words Sayings
#2. Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.
Mother Teresa
#3. By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Leo Tolstoy
#5. If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one.
Amen Muffler
#6. There are things better left untouched by words ...
Anna Kamienska
#7. But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
Ernest Holmes
#8. As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.
Athol Fugard
#9. Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Ralph Bellamy
#10. I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian."
Barbara Brown Taylor
#11. There are many things which can not be expressed by words.
There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue.
There are many tongues which utter one single truth.
Toba Beta
#12. And were you cornered by her,
eye to eye,
you would see that
there are still some watchful creatures
whose essence lies unbound by words.
There is still a wilderness.
Toby Barlow
#13. It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
Sallust
#14. Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.
Madeleine L'Engle
#15. If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
John Dewey
#16. You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.
Mark Twain
#17. There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense.
Clifford Truesdell
#18. A balanced education consists of knowledge in the mind, honesty in the heart, and strength in the body ... a true human being is an educator not by words alone but by being an example.
Jhoon Goo Rhee
#19. I am not alone. I am surrounded by words that tell me who I am, why I feel what I feel.
Anna Quindlen
#20. Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.
Peter Lindbergh
#21. Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.
Eric Hoffer
#22. Be an empty page, untouched by words.
Rumi
#23. The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.
Alfred Korzybski
#24. I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue ...
William Faulkner
#25. The most sincere feelings are the ones hardest to be expressed by words. - Unknown
Zane
#26. In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?
James Branch Cabell
#27. I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
Nawal El Saadawi
#28. Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
Michel De Montaigne
#29. Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Theodore Roosevelt
#30. A lovely horse is always an experience ... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
Beryl Markham
#31. I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#32. The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.
Gustave Le Bon
#33. If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.
Rumi
#34. There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.
Warren Buffett
#35. Bridges are built by words, thoughts, feelings and deeds. Art and love bring them all together...
Mykyta Isagulov
#36. In this age when words have lost their value, this age that is therefore dominated by violent words, by words swollen and yellowed with starvation, I have lost the will to speak any more of words. My despair over words is not an admittance of defeat in life.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#37. Trees are swayed by winds, men by words.
Joan Aiken
#38. Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving
Jane Hirshfield
#39. Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#40. Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended.
Jonathan Rauch
#41. It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels. - Lena Gray
Maeve Binchy
#42. We're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that.
Dar Williams
#43. I draw things on the paper very freely but believing there is meaning to them already. There is already meaning in the colors, I don't need to be guided by words. I draw them and the meaning comes after. Every time we would start a new sequence we would change everything.
Alex Abreu
#44. The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.
J. William Fulbright
#45. If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.
Stephen Fry
#46. Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.
Idries Shah
#47. I don't like labels. I won't be defined by words like normal, unbalanced, or damaged. There's so much more to me than words. I have layers, just like the next person, and if you picked me apart layer-by-layer, you'd find a blackened crust where my heart should be.
Belle Aurora
#48. You had to translate his actions, for they were seldom accompanied by words, because his world was a quiet world; a disconnected, factured space; a puzzle that made him phone me at 3am, asking me for the last piece of the border, so he could fill in the sky.
Sarah Winman
#49. The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.
Suzanne Curchod
#50. The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it ... All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#52. Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching ... not by words but by our example.
Mother Teresa
#53. I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language
Annie Proulx
#54. The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
Northrop Frye
#55. A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!
Orhan Pamuk
#56. What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.
Ezra Taft Benson
#57. When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
Ann Voskamp
#58. It was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.
Ayn Rand
#59. The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't fully been exploited by artists. Often artists are trapped by words.
Alex Abreu
#60. At the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words.
Orhan Pamuk
#61. Let me praise you tonight.
Because tomorrow you cannot be described by words,
While describing you.
Tomorrow, earth and sky will disappear altogether.
Rumi
#62. If I could communicate only by words on a page, how much more satisfactory I would be!
Lynn Barber
#63. There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
Zora Neale Hurston
#64. Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.
Delta Goodrem
#65. I was surrounded by words and stories and dust-speckled light. That's a pretty perfect way to be.
Natalie Lloyd
#67. One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily.
Sarada Devi
#68. Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
John Bunyan
#69. As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.
Dorothy Day
#71. 19. A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
Anonymous
#72. Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be understood and represented by the spirit.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#73. After the boy at the supermarket had called her those names, Evelyn Couch had felt violated. Raped by words. Stripped of Everything.
Fannie Flagg
#74. Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
Italo Calvino
#75. This I have observed: There are no language barriers in the Church. There is a mighty power that transcends the power of messages conveyed by words alone, and this is the power of messages communicated by the Spirit to our hearts.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#76. The general idiocy of mankind is such that they can be swayed by words, and however mortifying, for the present you have to accept the fact as you accept it in the cinema that a film to be a success must have a happy ending.
W. Somerset Maugham
#77. Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace.
Mother Teresa
#79. The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.
James Fitzjames Stephen
#80. Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say them. You had better be careful what you look up, which words, which names. Jane Clifford, in The Odd Woman
Gail Godwin
#81. Ashley was imprisoned forever by words which were stronger than any jail.
Margaret Mitchell
#82. Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.
Mother Teresa
#83. Love is indicated by deeds (and not by words)
Chanakya
#84. She refuses to be hit with Cupid's arrow. Shielded by the armor of chastity, she can't be charmed by words of love. She won't be assaulted by loving eyes, and she won't accept gifts of gold.
William Shakespeare
#85. But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.
Phyllis A. Whitney
#86. Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.
C.S. Lewis
#87. The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.
Thomas Sowell
#88. She doesn't acknowledge Tucker, and there's no thank you for the cigarettes. She says a person shows their gratitude by action, not by words. So I guess that means she thanks me by smoking every cigarette in every pack.
Peter Hedges
#89. We've all been hurt by words before. So before you speak, think about how your words might affect someone else.
Naya Rivera
#90. When we hurt each other, when we destroy & kill by words or deeds. When we deface the spirit of humanity-we destroy ourselves in the process!
Timothy Pina
#91. Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#92. Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.
John Banville
#93. All the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#94. How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words?
Marty Rubin
#95. The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.
Thomas Hobbes
#96. The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look.
Hiroya Oku
#97. Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed their idea that the God who made them and shaped their destinies was symbolized in themselves ...
Henry McNeal Turner
#98. Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#99. It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Sophocles
#100. Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.
Michael Parfit
