Words Quotes - page 3

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 Babington Macaulay)
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. View quote
Václav Havel
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. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
When words leave off, music begins. View quote
Heinrich Heine
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity do not easily resume life. View quote
George Steiner
To me, the body says what words cannot. View quote
Martha Graham
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. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
We do not write poems with ideas, but with words. View quote
Stéphane Mallarmé
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. (John Maynard Keynes)
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. View quote
Inayat Khan
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. View quote
Boris Pasternak
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. View quote
Philip K. Dick
I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it." View quote
Katherine Dunham
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I put the words down and push them a bit. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell characters. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Words are the only things that last forever. View quote
William Hazlitt
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. (Blaise Pascal)
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words. View quote
François Rabelais
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium. View quote
George Eliot
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
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