Quotes with words

  • With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
  • Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
  • I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
  • The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
  • The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
  • Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.
  • Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
  • The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
  • Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
  • The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Joseph Addison Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William R. Alger Words of love, are works of love.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Cato the Elder Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Martin Luther King In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Aldous Huxley Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Cato the Elder From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Abraham Lincoln He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Horace A picture is a poem without words.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Bernie S. Siegel As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bill Watterson Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Lydia M. Child 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 the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Addison I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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