Quotes with words-not

Quotes 8221 till 8240 of 10692.

  • Blu Cantrell The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up.
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  • Henry Miller The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Virginia Woolf The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Pauline Kael The words ''Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,'' which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this.
    Pauline Kael
    American film critic (0 - 2001)
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  • A. L. Kitselman The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
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  • Adam Clarke The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Bob Dylan The words fill my head, and fall to the floor, that if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war.
    Source: The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • W. H. Auden The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Albert Einstein The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Walt Whitman The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Felix Frankfurter The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Frederick Frieseke The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
    Frederick Frieseke
    American-born French painter (1874 - 1939)
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  • Carl Sagan The words question and quest are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.
    Source: Brocas Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Jean Paul The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Hazrat Inayat Khan The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
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  • Henry David Thoreau The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Hortense Calisher The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
    Hortense Calisher
    American writer (1911 - 2009)
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  • Jacob Bronowski The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Robert Fulghum The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
    Robert Fulghum
    American author and minister (1937 - )
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  • Richard Rorty The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
    Richard Rorty
    American philosopher (1931 - 2007)
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