Quotes with words

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  • Norman Cousins It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Bernard Paine It must recognize and hold up before men the moral character of this corruption of the ballot. Bribery is a sin. It is condemned in the laws of Moses: And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. These words are as true to-day as when they were written.
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  • Charlotte Brontë It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.
    Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 4
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Barney Frank It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Joan Baez It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
    Joan Baez
    American singer, songwriter (1941 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Buddy Rice It's hard to put into words, shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world.
    Buddy Rice
    American racecar driver (1976 - )
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  • Anne Dudley It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • B. Kevin Turner It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Buddy Wakefield Jordan tattoos the words forgive me in thick black letters down the inside of his arm so that when he looks at his wrist he will remember not to hate himself so much. What he keeps forgetting is that there is life after survival.
    Poetry Human the Death Dance
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Dhammapada Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Northrop Frye Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Lord George Byron Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Brian P. Cleary Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Frederick W. Faber Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
    Frederick W. Faber
    English hymn writer and theologian (1814 - 1863)
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  • Mother Teresa Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Blaise Pascal Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Lao-Tzu Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Noam Chomsky Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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