Top 100 Words But Quotes
#1. The woman tried to teach Winnet her language, and Winnet learned the words but not the language.
Jeanette Winterson
#2. Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
Zainab Salbi
#3. It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my biography of Winston Churchill - that short, strong words work better. I am ever-vigilant against the passive and against jargon, both of which are so insidious.
Gretchen Rubin
#4. I've seen no proof, only words, but words can be powerful" -Morgan
Lauren DeStefano
#5. I learned words, I learned words; but half of them
died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use
often look at me
with a look that whispers, Liar.
Norman MacCaig
#6. It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#7. Pictures rarely told the truth. They were like gold lacquer over Styrofoam, making things seem shiny and bright, disguising the fragility beneath. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it still wasn't worth a whole hell of a lot.
Amy Harmon
#8. Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty ... words ever determine lives.
Leanna Renee Hieber
#9. My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.
Karen Russell
#10. Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#11. 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.
Mathias Rust
#12. I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
Mae West
#13. The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. I'm normally not at a loss of words but I am a little taken aback by what you're wearing; it's a little different.
Joe Teti
#15. You may hear bad words but you always use soft words that carry the air of flowers!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. She kills her words, but somehow the feeling survives. And no matter where she buries them, he always sees them in her eyes.
Seekerohan
#17. My dad said that if it's part of the character, I'm allowed to say bad words, but if it's not part of the character, and I say it at home when I'm not acting, that I won't be acting anymore.
Rohan Chand
#18. It is certainly true that 'actions speak louder than words,' but words become as monuments to thoughts.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#19. I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.
Idina Menzel
#20. Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.
Swami Vivekananda
#21. When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.
Leona Lewis
#22. Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Pythagoras
#23. Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
Rowan Atkinson
#24. I love you. You don't have to say it back. You already said it, in so many words. But I want you to know, I want to say it, I want you to hear it and believe it.
Jane Seville
#25. I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.
Douglas Coupland
#26. It's not through words but actions that I want to set the luster on my life.
Sophocles
#27. People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
John C. Maxwell
#28. A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
Chinua Achebe
#29. A picture may describe a 1000 words but it will often need 1000 words to describe a picture.
Chloe Thurlow
#30. A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.
Paul Fleischman
#31. My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.
Tom Tomorrow
#32. Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else's word for it.
A.J. Darkholme
#33. The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
Adam Baldwin
#34. This was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. It was not the man's brain that was speaking, it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck.
George Orwell
#35. 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
#36. I never want to leave you.
I didn't respond- not because I couldn't find the words, but because there weren't any words in the entire world that could have sounded more perfect.
Meredith T. Taylor
#37. Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#38. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and blues.
Anne Lamott
#39. Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
John Wycliffe
#40. 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.
Pythagoras
#41. They was strong words but they was said and I let them stay said.
Mark Twain
#42. As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.
Linda Kaplan Thaler
#43. Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the words that motivates the words, that conveys real communication and meaning.
John Kapelos
#44. She was leader of this little crew and she'd go first. Always. When she took on new members, she gave them one chance to get that right. If the words, but you're a woman. Let me take point, were ever spoken, that person was history.
Laken Cane
#45. It's like I'm split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing the other half around this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this me can't catch her.
Haruki Murakami
#46. The ultimate philosophy of life is not found in words, but it is found in the ways of living life.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.
Miranda Otto
#48. You had nightmares every night for a long time and screamed in Korean words, but we didn't know what they meant. I asked someone who knew Korean, and he said it was um-ma um-ma, the word for mom.
Soojung Jo
#49. But most wonderful of all is the fact that we who have consecrated ourselves to him, honor him not only with our voices and with the sound of words, but also with complete elevation of soul, so that we choose to give testimony unto him rather than to preserve our own lives.
Eusebius
#50. The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#51. They stare at me like I've lost my mind and I try to mentally summon my lips to form words, but they are bound together by the painful memories crushing my heart.
Jessica Sorensen
#52. Marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it.
Diana Gabaldon
#53. Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!
Ben Mikaelsen
#54. Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
Joichi Ito
#55. People used to ask me questions on my blog about how to break into the acting industry. You often have to start out in parts where you have very few words, but you still have to try to make an impact.
Stephen Amell
#56. People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?
Dada Bhagwan
#57. A picture's worth a thousands words but they don't tell the whole story.
Jennifer Brown
#59. Here's to the future, he said and lifted the glass to his mouth. There was a lump of regret stuck in his throat as he spoke the words, but he washed it down with the whiskey.
Bette Lee Crosby
#60. I've always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue-intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.
Jonathan Glazer
#61. Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.
Marc Morial
#62. From the day I was born I have always loved action more than words. But now only words are left.
Sattareh Farman Farmaian
#63. A yawning repetitiveness as of a man who knows few words but will not stop talking.
John Updike
#64. Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.
Hesiod
#65. The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words but not to seem neutral, and above all to keep constantly audible, visible, likable, even kissable.
Learned Hand
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
[Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1963]
John F. Kennedy
#69. Reporters heard words but not poetry, saw old politicians but not new heroes.
David Pietrusza
#70. But you don't know what I want, do you. You formed an idea of who I am and What I do, and you've woven that idea in your life. You may listen to my words, but you don't hear my thoughts. You don't hear my needs. You don't see me. You haven't seen me in years.
Barbara Delinsky
#71. There are so many unbelievable words ... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word.
Brett Hull
#72. When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.
Dave Matthews
#73. It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I can change seven.
Dorothy Parker
#74. When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
Jodi Picoult
#77. It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'
Malala Yousafzai
#78. In strength the body only knows itself, is full of itself, its movements, its words, but in weakness is the invisible and the whisperings.
Lene Fogelberg
#79. What else is a poem about?
The rhythm and the images buried in the language. All the ways you can build an emotion with words, but you can't just write 'I feel sad.' I mean, you can, but it's not poetry ... I think it has to be experienced instead of studied. You step into it.
Garret Freymann-Weyr
#80. 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
#81. Actions can speak louder than words but words can sometimes cut deeper than a sword if they come from the right people in our lives.
Christina Estabrook
#82. So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#83. Poetry may appear to be just words, but it is an extension of our lives. It is the music of life and for us to f ind true happiness, we have to immerse ourselves in its beauty.
Abdul Milazi
#84. 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
#85. You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.
George R R Martin
#86. Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.
Saint John Chrysostom
#87. He may not have said the words, but I know my son. I saw the way he looked at you."
"How?"
"Like he'd do murder for you.
Jessica Spotswood
#88. Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
William James
#89. I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.
Mike May
#90. Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.
Patricia Briggs
#91. I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough ... they didn't mean enough
Mos Def
#92. Between one breath and the next, the vision took him. It came not as a chain of reason, more words words words, but as a blinding image, all complete in its first moment, inherent, holistic, gestalt, inspired. Every hour of his life from now on would be but the linear exploration of its fullness.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#94. The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.
Umar
#95. I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.
Alan Ladd
#96. I'd always imagined that I'd come up with something clever and pithy when it came to my last words, but as I stood there staring at those horrifying green eyes, I settled for a little startled profanity.
How embarrassing.
Kate SeRine
#98. They just say words, and what are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die.
Anthony Doerr
#99. You may be wonderful with words, but your best writing comprises of the words that had been said to you by somebody else and had engraved on your memory forever...
Gaurav Sharma
#100. To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
Augusto Roa Bastos
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