Top 100 Words They Quotes
#1. I say that trials and tests locate a person. In other words they determine where you are spiritually. They reveal the true condition of your heart. How you react under pressure is how the real you reacts.
John Bevere
#3. Watch your thoughts-listen to them because they shape your life and evolve into words. They tell a story about you and how you perceive your life.
Barbara Miller
#4. I was a witness to lots of death ... Saving a human life was something really, really beautiful ... no matter who they are. Not only Israeli people owe me their lives. I guarantee many terrorists, many Palestinian leaders, owe me their lives - or in other words, they owe my Lord their lives.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
#5. I suppose all this sounds very crazy - all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken - only felt and endured.
L.M. Montgomery
#6. All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.
Adriana Trigiani
#7. I have to tell you, as your Secretary of State, I went to 112 countries, and when people hear those words, they hear America. So don't let anyone tell you that our country is weak. We're not. Don't let anyone tell you we don't have what it takes. We do.
Hillary Clinton
#8. Never build relationships with others based on the words they speak instead of the actions they take.
Van Moody
#11. But sometimes things are said and they're not just words. They are everything that one person thinks of another in a sentence. Just one sentence.
Richard Flanagan
#12. Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.
Damian Lewis
#13. Books aren't just made of words... they're also filled with places to visit and people to meet.
Anonymous
#14. Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other
Zig Ziglar
#15. In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.
Christopher Guest
#16. My words aren't only words. They're pictures and tears and imperfect offerings of love and self-inflicted shots to my brain.
Miriam Toews
#17. When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.
Margaret Atwood
#18. The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going.
Teju Cole
#19. And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me.
Conor Oberst
#20. Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.
John Tillotson
#21. Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.
Lysa TerKeurst
#22. The problem with monasteries, ashrams, convents is these institutions become extremely political. In other words, they're really small societies, and much of what you hope to avoid in societies you find there.
Frederick Lenz
#23. Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#24. Startled, I accidently knock over my inkwell. A black tsunami of ink sprawls out across the page, engulfing the tiny village of my words. They are swept away into the midnight sea. Gone forever. I am bereft.
Danger Slater
#25. I don't have Ryan's way with words. They're hard for me. Difficult. At least words that have emotion.
Katie McGarry
#26. What I've found in doing research is that men want a relationship that feels fun. In other words, they want a relationship that has qualities or elements of their same-sex relationships - just like women do, too.
Hill Harper
#27. Turtles are not the innocent, harmless creatures everyone thinks they are. Mark my words. They're secretly planning to take over the world. And then where will we be?
Darynda Jones
#28. Men don't respond to words. They respond to no contact.
Sherry Argov
#29. Memories are't like words; they're soft and gooey. Covered with a sticky slime, like a penis after sex, or your vagina when you menstruate, and shaped like tadpoles or tiny watersnakes
Ryu Murakami
#30. They said words they did not mean, and their conversations seemed to follow all kinds of rules - rules that no one has ever explained to Oscar.
Anne Ursu
#31. The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.
Bodhidharma
#32. Then their conversation turned to work and movies. I tried to contribute, but I had trouble focusing on the words. They just floated into my ear and accumulated there like wax.
Neil Strauss
#33. Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your conscience? The Magi heard the answer: "In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it is written by the prophet" ... enlightened by these words, they chose to press forward to the very end.
Pope Benedict XVI
#34. Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Lao-Tzu
#35. Martin ... I'm ... I shook my head, having difficulty finding words. They were hiding in all the closets of my brain, the little bastards.
Penny Reid
#36. They got special terms that they use when they're pregnant. They don't even say pregnant, got special words they use - I'm expecting. Expecting what? I'm expecting a child, silly. Well, then, you probably got a good shot!
Brad Stine
#37. The words came so fast they seemed to roll down hill. Nobody ever calls it all that; it's just spring wheat, but I like the words. They heap up and make a picture of a spring that's slow to come, when the ground stays frozen late into March and the air is raw, and the skies are sulky and dark
Mildred Walker
#38. Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.
Hugo Black
#39. People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
Al-Ghazali
#40. 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
#41. Looking back at that conversation, I can't help wondering: Did I know? Did I know what was coming, and did I think that as long as I wouldn't let Livvie say the words, they wouldn't be true?
Melissa Kantor
#42. There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages.
Ann Nocenti
#43. In fact, I've met countless believers who have said, "The church is an organism, not an organization." Yet as they formed those very words, they continued to be devout members of churches that were organized along the lines of General Motors and Microsoft.
Frank Viola
#44. When Vern had described Meme users so estranged from everyday language that they didn't know what words they didn't know, I
Alena Graedon
#45. Writers are not paid for their words. They are paid for their perseverance.
John Briggs
#46. There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it.
Tony Hale
#47. I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.
Geraldine Brooks
#48. While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues ... In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.
Daymond John
#49. And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.
Norton Juster
#50. Feelings are not controllable," I retorted, "They are not thoughts or words. They are invisible emotions you cannot control no matter how bad you try.
Ariana Godoy
#52. I talked to her just like I talk to a laboring woman. Mothers need to hear them soothing words. They just as important as the medicines, sometimes even more.
Hillary Jordan
#53. I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.
George Eliot
#54. I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to elicit widespread attention; in other words, they're just life happening. That's what I think about: life, and telling a story.
Anna Quindlen
#55. There's more to honesty than ... than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can't lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor -
Cassandra Clare
#56. Rahul's great idea, he said that having either darkness or too much white made someone's sanity decay and made them easier to manipulate. In the dark, though, they felt they could hide, and in Rahul's words ... 'They can hide, but they can't run' he used that like a mantra.
Mercy Cortez
#57. Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvelously exotic word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away.
James J. Kilpatrick
#58. Whenever I cared about someone, I imagined them leaving - the words they'd say, the way it would feel when they left. I thought if I prepared myself, it would be easier when it finally happened.
Kami Garcia
#59. For one entire day I let his kiss burn on my cheek and into my blood and I don't push the memory away ... This kiss, these words, they feel like beginning.
Ally Condie
#60. Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#61. The English language is under assault by stupid people who use words they don't understand, and is defended by pompous asses who like to correct those people. We're not sure who to side with.
Tim Cameron
#62. Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
Lydia M. Child
#63. Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.
Diane Wood
#64. It is over, isn't it?" Trustingly, he seemed to be waiting for her to tell him, as if she would know. As if hearing himself say it meant nothing; he had a dubious attitude toward his own words; they didn't become real, not until she agreed.
"It's over," she said.
Philip K. Dick
#65. The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.
Aaron Belz
#66. You're like one of those birds from the Summer Isles, aren't you? A pretty little talking bird, repeating all the pretty little words they taught you to recite.
George R R Martin
#67. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.
Winston Churchill
#69. There was clairvoyance to their words and a tenderness in their inflections that instilled even in the most cynical of male hearts that faith and fate weren't just words, they were our guides and as long as you kept your heart open, sooner or later love would find its way into it.
Eric Monsky
#70. Oysters, clams, and cockles were cat's magic words, and like all good magic words they could take her almost anywhere.
George R R Martin
#71. But the queen
too long she has suffered the pain of love,
hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,
consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [ ... ]
His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling
no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.
Virgil
#72. I never understood why people use words they do not understand.
Sylvain Neuvel
#73. When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.
Roberto Benigni
#74. One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
Jose Saramago
#75. I'm attracted to people. To the words they speak, to the actions they take, to their full-bodied mannerisms and soulful gaits. I am attracted to people. To impassioned hearts that beat out of sync, the ones that skip a measure, heard in hushed places and violent spaces - I am attracted to people.
Krista Ritchie
#76. I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
#77. Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.
Susan Sontag
#78. I love you," "I was wrong," and "I apologize" are powerful words. They can save marriages, deepen friendships, and change lives. Don't be afraid to use them.
John Hawkins
#79. Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell
Novala Takemoto
#80. His words! Damn him and his words! They make me forget that I care about anything.
M. Leighton
#81. Who had been fighting with someone they loved?
Going at it long enough to unleash the irretrievable words they knew to say only because they had been trusted to know what would hurt the most.
Bill Clegg
#82. When you're doing voice work, you're in a bubble where you just think about the story and the words. They record you on video while you're doing the voice work, so they capture how your face is moving and the gestures you make.
Christina Hendricks
#83. When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
Baron D'Holbach
#84. There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
Samuel Beckett
#85. I would not forget my magic words; they were MELODY GLOUCESTER PEGASUS, but I refused to let them into my mind.
Shirley Jackson
#86. A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything.
Rush Limbaugh
#87. One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.
John O'Donohue
#88. The 107th Psalm rang out, and all sang along with the well known words; "They that go down to the sea in ships That do business in great waters These see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep.
Philip Van Wulven
#89. I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.
Prince
#90. I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.
Douglas Coupland
#91. She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.
Dakota Cassidy
#92. Just keep in mind," Liaro said, "they're not going to remember the words. They'll remember how you made them feel. Make them feel something.
Kameron Hurley
#93. How obvious it is now
the gift you gave him. All those letters, they were you ... All those beautiful powerful words, they were you!.. The voice from the shadows, that was you ... You always loved me! Roxanne
Edmond Rostand
#94. Don't use big words. They mean so little.
Oscar Wilde
#95. Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.
Jack Kerouac
#96. It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.
Tom Perrotta
#97. You ask me why I do not write something ... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
#98. Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.
Slavoj Zizek
#99. There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.
Marcel Duchamp
#100. I bleed passion. I'm not entirely sure what this means but I'm greedy over the words. They're so full of life. And I really need some life to balance out the desperate allure of the dark.
Marley Jacobs
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