Quotes with words

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  • Alexander Pope No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Barry Cornwall Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Hannah Arendt Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Martin Luther King Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Caroline Knapp On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Bernard Malamud Once you've got some words looking back at you, you can take two or three or throw them away and look for others.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Evelyn Waugh One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Hoff One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.
    The Tao of Pooh
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Bob Newhart One time I happened to use the word 'denigrate' onstage, and it didn't get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Arlo Guthrie Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted
    Arlo Guthrie
    American folk singer-songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Robert Cialdini Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.
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  • Malcolm de Chazal Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.''
    Malcolm de Chazal
    French writer (1902 - 1981)
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  • John Bunyan Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • George Eliot Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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