Top 100 Words Not Quotes
#1. I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
Don DeLillo
#2. I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#3. In this perilous times, we have more preachers of the Word than doers of thw Word. In other words, Not all preachers are doers.
May God may you and I doers of the Word
Abegunde Sunday O.
#4. Let the enemy fall by their swords. Words not worth reading die their own death. But our Words will be Told!
K.A. Gunn
#5. The secret of zen is just two words: not ... always ... so.
Shunryu Suzuki
#6. When top-level chess players look at a board, they see words, not letters. Instead of seeing twenty-five pieces, they may see just five or six groups of pieces. That's why it's easy for them to remember where all the pieces are.
Geoff Colvin
#7. The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so ... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.
Shunryu Suzuki
#8. She said softly, "You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live."
He didn't have the words. Not when what she said hit him harder and deeper than any kiss.
So he climbed into bed and held her tightly all through the night.
Sarah J. Maas
#9. Say thank you with words, not hugs. -- Bax to Brysen
Jay Crownover
#10. The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.
Lydia Lunch
#11. Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts with ever-present loveliness and ever-cresting ambiguity; it would not dream, on its long white bones, of turning into song.
Mary Oliver
#12. Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.
Mattie Stepanek
#13. Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. Words not kept break more than a promise.
Ron Kaufman
#15. Bullys are the small group who should perish not by voilence, but by non violence, words not fists, thats the awnser to our problem.
Timothy Long
#16. He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.
Robert Cormier
#17. We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
William J. Clinton
#18. I dont want to hear the words "NOT POSSIBLE" they dont exist in my world - Rayvon L Browne
Rayvon L. Browne
#19. Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.
Arthur Symons
#20. Not all things can be expressed through words, not all the words reflect the truth.
Ary Hidayat
#21. Humans were capable of so many amazing things, but too often they just sat making words, not doing anything.
W. Bruce Cameron
#22. I am an actress - I am paid to verbalize other people's words, not create my own.
Judy Greer
#23. A kiss is just a kiss, were words not expressed by a man tied naked to a tree.
Dixie Waters
#24. 229. I am writing all this down in blue ink, so as to remember that all words, not just some, are written in water.
Maggie Nelson
#25. What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
#26. You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else.
Tito Colliander
#27. KIDS IN DISTRESSED FAMILIES ARE GREAT repositories of silence and carry in their bodies whole arctic wastelands of words not to be uttered, stories not to be told.
Mary Karr
#28. Love has its own qualities and one of the qualities is that love understands. Its understanding is not in words, not in thought, but it understands within. It can feel within, which is very important.
Nirmala Srivastava
#29. Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Rumi
#30. We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.
Anne Lamott
#31. Words blur at the borders, fuzz into other words, not just in big clouds of connotation around the edges of the word, but right there in the heart of denotation itself.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#32. Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#33. Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own
my words are gone.
Jennifer Niven
#34. We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.
Madeleine L'Engle
#36. For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.
Kathy Acker
#38. The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'
Sara Bareilles
#39. Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.
James Merrill
#40. The best words not only pinpoint an idea better than any alternative but echo it in their sound and articulation, a phenomenon called phonesthetics, the feeling of sound.
Steven Pinker
#41. 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.
Bertrand Russell
#42. Finance people should remember Albert Einstein's wise words: "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Bjarte Bogsnes
#43. At his words not my body, but my soul bucked, decimating barriers that until then had been untouched.
Jen Crane
#44. I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.
Arthur Hailey
#45. Silence is no weakness of language.
It is, on the contrary, its strength.
It is the weakness of words not to know this.
Edmond Jabes
#46. Clean your Tongue with your Words, not with tongue cleaner
Samar Sudha
#47. What about you?" he asked, his words not much more than a mumble. "Regrets?"
"Many," Skuduggery said.
Tesseract's breath rattled in his chest. "That's the goo thing about living. You get to make up for past mistakes."
"Or make brand-new ones.
Derek Landy
#48. On a basic level, it's actually very simple, Ella. Dr. Hakim's words. Not one single person on this planet is perfect. Every single one of us is deeply flawed. Either we accept that fact and forgive ourselves for the mistakes we're bound to make, or we let them destroy us. But
Harper Bliss
#49. I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
#50. Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones.
Jeff Shaara
#51. It is in the heart and not in the words - not even in the most beautiful ones - but in the heart, in the skeleton bird pushing against your chest, wanting to fly, that we know for certain who and what we love. That is all we have, and all there is.
Mette Jakobsen
#52. She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.
Patrick White
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
Barbara Hall
#56. Frances McDormand is my favorite actor. I don't know if that's relevant. But she's a person who plays people. In other words, not everything has to be an over-the-top Broadway musical to get my attention, but it certainly helps.
Julie Klausner
#57. Women are heavyweight boxers; only, they punch with words, not fists.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#58. I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash
I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want)
Sapardi Djoko Damono
#59. Storytelling is easy. All that's needed is a beginning, a middle and an end, and about 53,000 words. Not true. There is nothing more difficult than inventing a story.
Dennis Macaraeg
#60. Teachers of design should help a student to find their own voice. In other words, not be a templated version of the teacher, but rather to help them [the students] unfold what they already know and can bring to the table.
April Greiman
#61. It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.
Alexandra Bracken
#62. I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
Mandy Patinkin
#64. He tends to trust pictures more than he trusts words. Not because pictures cannot lie but because, once they leave the darkroom, they are fixed, immutable.
J.M. Coetzee
#65. Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#67. [Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.
Wallace Stegner
#68. You are one gorgeous creature," he said. "Did any of those loser boyfriends ever tell you that?"
Not in so many words. Not in any words, really. And it was nice to hear, even if it came from Theo.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#69. I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
Andre Agassi
#70. We sit in silence and watch the stars, I suppose because there are no words, not in all the languages on earth, that can properly describe the feeling of being in love. And perhaps those little burning lights out there in the dark, are the closest we come to something that does.
Beau Taplin
#71. I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does, but with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite; even with joy, as you approach women: perhaps with the same secretly unscrupulous intentions.
William Faulkner
#72. I want you to remember that - it's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises." Etta
Alexandra Bracken
#73. Lyndon Johnson's sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that infused the sentences with drama.
Robert A. Caro
#74. Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.
David Riesman
#75. Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.
Umberto Saba
#76. Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.
John Banville
#77. Make it a practice to kick yourself for every time you answer your children with the words NOT RIGHT NOW.
Wes Fesler
#78. We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.
Max Bill
#79. Raise your words, not your voice.
Rumi
#80. When the words not enough to describe how much you love ...
even you know she/he don't anything for you ...
you cant fall a sleep exactly like before's
-kuntal
Bob Marley
#81. It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters.
David Chiles
#82. Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality
Brenda Perlin
#83. Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs
Richard Crashaw
#84. The real me lives in words, not in what words mean.
Anne Sexton
#85. She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what was most important, what, in that confused mass of experience and yearning she heard in my voice, she could single out to give back.
Alice Sebold
#86. I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music, it cannot really with comfort absorb large amounts of words. Not nearly as many words, that is to say, as a stage can.
Bob Mondello
#87. 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
#88. The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.
James Lipton
#89. Loafe with me on the grass - loose the stop from your throat;
Not words, not music or rhyme I want - not custom or lecture, not even the best;
Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
Walt Whitman
#90. I said very little. I knew that for the time being I was the open air, the place to put the words, not a real interlocutor. And then, ekthout a transition of any kind, she began to tell me .... {p. 134}
Siri Hustvedt
#91. Perhaps she was happiest when she was out of control. She looked at the fates and said three little words, not one regret.
Lawren Leo
#92. Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times ... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).
Vladimir Nabokov
#93. In other words you disappear, you become one with your words, not separate, and when you put your pen down, the you who was writing is gone.
Natalie Goldberg
#94. Words, not hands,' said Layne. She poked Gabriel with a fork. 'I think you need a T shirt that says that.'
He leaned in close. 'Give me five minutes and I bet I can change your mind.
Brigid Kemmerer
#95. Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J.L. Austin
#96. She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try to observe their effect.
Jane Austen
#97. Try not to worry, for time is a great healer.' Such words were futile.
Catherine Cookson
#98. For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be within us. Therefore it knows our prayer even before we have uttered it, for it is closer to our hearts than to our words.
- Opus paramirum, I:ix
Paracelsus
#99. I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable or flawed in any way. You deserve to be loved. You deserve kind words and an unwavering eye.
Menna Van Praag
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