Top 1200 Deeds And Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

The words we use don't matter as much as the emotion behind the words. When we understand this, we have the ability to influence, inspire, persuade and affect others.

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

Base not your joy on the deeds of others. For what has been given can be taken away.

For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that they are saying, but not only the words.

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.

Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history of our culture. They tell you what's going on. When you make words politically incorrect you're taking all the poetry out of the language. I'm pro anybody living their lives the way they want to live, sexually and otherwise; and I'm anti any kind of language repression.

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into as few words as possible.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."

I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.

If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.

Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.

I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry.

These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.

When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then a radiant state of awareness can occur.

Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.

If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.

And just as there are no words for the surface, that is, No words to say what it really is, that it is not Superficial but a visible core, then there is No way out of the problem of pathos vs. experience.

The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]

Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.

So we see, brethren and sisters that the words of Christ can be a personal Liahona for each of us, showing us the way. Let us now be slothful because of the easiness of the way. Let us in faith take the words of Christ into our minds and into our hearts as they are recorded in sacred scripture and as they are uttered by living prophets, seers, and revelators. Let us with faith and diligence feast upon the words of Christ, for the words of Christ will be our spiritual Liahona telling us all things what we should do.

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

I have a fondness for words. On that note, I don't consider my lyrics to be all that great. I like to call myself a supplier of words rather than a lyricist.

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.

I feel like what you tell yourself after the words 'I am...' is so important. I'm very careful with the words I use about myself.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.” I find the thought reassuring. It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them.

It's no coincidence that good words make us feel good and that hurtful or angry words make us feel bad. There is a 100 percent correlation between the words we choose and how we feel.

No better words than "thank you" have yet been discovered to express the sincere gratitude of one's heart; when the two words are sincerely spoken.

I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

As a writer I try to operate within a framework of Christian principles, and the words that are important to me are religious words: witness, pilgrimage, intention.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new words. Leave a place for the strange and downright impossible ones. Use ancient words. Hold on to the gangly, silly, slippy, truthful, dangerous, out-of-fashion ones.