Lasting Words Quotes

#1. The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words.

Tom Chatfield

#2. But no death rode this breeze.

James Rollins

#3. Someone knocked on the door. "Come in!" Barabas called. The door swung open and Derek stuck his head in. "Hey, do you have any duct tape?" He saw me, stepped back, and closed the door without a word. Well. "Coward," Barabas said, loud enough for Derek to hear.

Ilona Andrews

#4. It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.

Anna Pavlova

#5. Forgiveness is more than words ... it is a state of being, and if forgiveness is to be anything more than a superficial offering, then, psychological, emotional, and spiritual ground must be cleared in order that the act of forgiveness may be properly rooted, and, therefore, lasting.

Bill Whitehouse

#6. I am an archivist. I am a librarian. I collect words because words are the truest and longest-lasting craft in the world.

Seanan McGuire

#7. Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.

Chris Squire

#8. I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

Paul Newman

#9. 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

#10. Thoughts, words, ideas and information, free from any bonds or restrictions, is the very concrete which pours out a foundation strong enough that upon which a house, stable and lasting, of true freedom and liberty may be built.

Derek R. Audette

#11. Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.

Doseone

#12. Here lies one whose name was writ on water.

John Keats

#13. I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.

Paulo Coelho

#14. As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.

Richard Peck

#15. Remember, while words can be powerful, eloquent, and lasting, it is our committed action that will ultimately serve as the defining factor of our relationships.

Steve Maraboli

#16. The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.

Dexter Palmer

#17. Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

Evelyn Waugh

#18. Wonderful is the power of instrumental music, absolute music without words, that may convey impressions, deep and lasting, no words could give.

Aubertine Woodward Moore

#19. Marriage is a long-lasting friendship.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#21. What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.

T.F. Hodge