Quotes 5521 till 5540 of 5767.
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Women. They are a complete mystery.
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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.
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Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
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Words like ''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
New Statesman and Nation, 15 July 1933 -
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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Working with the children on 'Matilda' has been a joy. They don't do this professionally - their sense of discovery is instinctive, and the challenge for us adults is to keep that going in ourselves when we're doing it for the fiftieth or the hundredth time. To my delight and amazement, it hasn't gone stale - we discover it freshly every time.
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World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
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Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.
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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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