Top 100 In Words Quotes
#1. We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.
Homer
#2. Only good poets cure us of an overindulgence in words. Only simple essential food cures us of gluttony.
Hector Abad Faciolince
#3. How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#4. Whether you think you're right or you think you're wrong. You're right."
"If you think in pictures, write. If you think in words, paint.
Krista Kedrick
#5. An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. But I'll tell you more about that later ... or maybe I won't, because some wounds just don't heal even if you talk them out. On the contrary, the more you dress them up in words, the more they bleed.
Subcomandante Marcos
#7. -Why are you so sad?
- Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.
Leo Tolstoy
#8. I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.
Zooey Deschanel
#9. Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
William James
#10. Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#11. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;
Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
#12. Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen
#13. I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication.
Quentin Tarantino
#14. Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union.
Richard J. Foster
#15. Don't apologize."
"I wasn't-"
"Not in words, but it was clear from your tone. Apology suggests that you are keeping me from doing what I need to do, which implies I am somehow powerless to do otherwise. It's a choice, Olivia.
Kelley Armstrong
#16. A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes
#17. The romance of Creator and creation is far more wonderful and profound than anyone can ever capture in words.
Brian D. McLaren
#18. The enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
Anita Shreve
#19. Peeta doesn't need a brush to paint images from the Games. He works just as well in words.
Suzanne Collins
#20. Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.
Satish Kumar
#21. It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me.
Gherman Titov
#22. I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.
Sophocles
#23. Director and producers have to take all the risks they can. We developed this film with the possibility to create departing from a blank page and to discover things as the process went along and as we understood the things that at first we couldn't understand in words.
Alex Abreu
#24. And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.
Kahlil Gibran
#25. Humor and profundity are not mutually exclusive, and life can be, and mostly is, serious and funny simultaneously. It's not always easy to capture that in words, but when T.M. Shine manages to do so, it's a sign of a master at work.
Tom Shroder
#26. I am not myself.
My thoughts are tangled in words that are not my own.
Tahereh Mafi
#27. I feel like I'm an explorer, a frontiersman if you will, and I've been able to satisfy that desire in me through music. I've continued to meet people who challenge me and inspire me as friends. I don't even know how to even quantify it in words. I've been very fortunate.
Ishmael Butler
#28. Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words-these alone are without effect.
Abdu'l- Baha
#29. I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
Lance Henriksen
#30. Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.
William Walker Atkinson
#31. I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
Vladimir Nabokov
#32. Question: Is the world as it's depicted in words the real world? Words stand between the person and his soul. And
Svetlana Alexievich
#33. In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch
#34. A Writer Drenched in Words is Never Caught in a Dry Spell
Anonymous
#35. 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
#36. Jerry: If you always want less, in words as well as things, you'll do well as a writer.
Judd Apatow
#37. Christ wasn't a Christian and Buddha wasn't a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn't Muslim. These people were having the experience of unity consciousnesses and universal consciousness and they spoke of it in words.
Deepak Chopra
#38. I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#39. I love her more than I actually express in words - an irony for a writer - and am every day genuinely amazed I get to spend my life with her.
John Scalzi
#40. No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand
for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.
Ivan Turgenev
#41. I do not believe in words, no matter if strung together by the most skillful man: I believe in language, which is something beyond words, something which words give only an adequate illusion of.
Henry Miller
#42. We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you.
Frederick Lenz
#43. Divine power does not travel in words but in a personal relationship (John 5:19; 15:5). We cannot simply go around saying the right words and shouting the right commands and expect results. Jesus had to be led by his Father, and so do we.
Zondervan Publishing
#44. Though my heart is filled with feelings I want to convey You see, I can't express them in words If I had not met you I wouldn't even have such an embarrassing pain
Ayumi Hamasaki
#45. If you can't get it across in words, then it's better not to try.
Haruki Murakami
#46. We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us
words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.
David Levithan
#47. In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason ?
R.S. Thomas
#48. A mathematician thinks in numbers, a lawyer in laws, and an idiot thinks in words.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#49. The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
Willie Dixon
#50. He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to explain their mental processes in words.
Agatha Christie
#51. Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish ... It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.
Hermann Hesse
#52. Love is beyond reason. Love is not measurable in words. Love cannot be partial; it cannot have owners. Love is essentially beyond definition or concept.
Mabel Iam
#53. People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding - a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.
Wilhelm Stekel
#54. This revolution will be noted. It will be successful and above all, it will be in words.
Moonshine Noire
#55. Women's status in society has become the standard by which humanity's progress toward civility and peace can be measured."-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images
Mahnaz Afkhami
#56. I love you in a language that I don't fully understand. In words that I haven't found enough courage to forklift out of my chest.
Rudy Francisco
#57. Bawdy in thoughts, precise in words,
Ill-natured though a whore,
Her belly is a bag of turds,
And her cunt a common shore.
John Wilmot
#59. The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end ... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#60. Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words ...
Edith Wharton
#61. As if he conveyed by actions what he could never say in words. Would never say in words.
Maya Banks
#63. The feeling cannot be described in words, it's mystical; I am changing. Perhaps the soul needed silence so that it can shout to hear the echo from the walls of my heart. It did heard something, Sufism!
Dr. S.U.A.H Syed
#64. I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.
Michelangelo Antonioni
#66. What lives in words is what words were needed to learn.
Jane Hirshfield
#67. There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Josh Billings
#68. A friendly voice, though in words, can bring sunshine into the darkest of places.
T.L. Jenkins
#69. Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
Robert Browning
#70. The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#71. Come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words ...
John Geddes
#73. We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
Jennifer Granholm
#74. We are fortunate to have collectively built a culture that matters, a brand that matters, a business that matters. It is impossible to state in words how much this team means to me, how much Hulu means to me.
Jason Kilar
#75. Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.
Bill Vaughan
#77. Peace is Letting Go
Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.
Malidoma Patrice Some
#78. Too young to explain in words, the girl's face was old enough to show the loss that was that name.
Anthony Marra
#79. There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.
Joseph Glanvill
#80. Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.
Gilbert Highet
#81. The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
Henry James Sumner Maine
#82. There is no man but carries in his breast the makings of a story, which, though never told, comes more home to him, than any the mind of another man can find and fashion in words
("The Watcher O' The Dead")
John Guinan
#83. I love stories. But I don't distinguish so much between a short story and a novel. Personally, when I sit down to read a novel or a Chekhov story, I'm seeking the same thing: I'm seeking that same rich portrayal of life in words.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#84. Being aware that the sacred quality hidden in the experience of eroticism is something impossible for language to reach (this is also due to the impossibility of experiencing of re-experiencing anything through language), Bataille still expresses it in words. (Mishima on Bataille)
Georges Bataille
#85. I have become distrustful of teachings and learning, and I have little faith in words that come to us from teachers. But, very well, my friend - I am ready to hear this new teaching, although I believe in my heart that I have already tasted the best fruit of it.
Hermann Hesse
#86. Psalm 46: 10 tells us there is a kind of knowing that comes in silence and not in words-but first we must be still.
The Hebrew word translated "Be still" literally means "Let go of your grip.
Ruth Haley Barton
#87. A writer visualises life in words, a painter in colours, a singer in music, an actor in emotions, a dancer in steps...
Shikha Kaul
#88. The only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.
Victoria Schwab
#89. A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the truth is not in words.
Huineng
#90. Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.
Sigmund Freud
#91. The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#92. There are People that can translocate mountains, But There are also People that can make from a Little thing a story So big as a Mountain in Words to take the Happiness from others away, because of jealousy.
Jan Jansen
#93. Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them
Lev S. Vygotsky
#94. The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music ... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.
Rabindranath Tagore
#95. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#96. The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can't be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
Alan Garner
#98. I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.
Ian Fleming
#99. It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count.
Alfred North Whitehead
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