Top 1200 Hard Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Words are the only jewels I possess Words are the only clothes I wear Words are only the food that sustain my life Words are the only wealth I distribute among people.

Words were one of the most powerful forces known— or unknown— to man. The Most High had created this world with His words. And humans, who had been fashioned in His image, could direct the entire course of their lives with their words, their mouths as the rudder on a ship, as the bridle on a horse. They produced with their words. They destroyed with their words.

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.

It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.

It's hard to tell writers, especially in movies, that words are secondary. Behavior is important.

My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'.

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Words aren't hurting anybody. Words are not causing any damage, not expressly and not directly. But we're so focused on the words.

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

I don't think I'm the best lyricist; it's hard for me to express feelings through words.

Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.

There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.

Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.

Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

The hardest part is writing a song as a story. A song is so short and there are only so many words that every line has to hit. The words have to flow. You can't say certain words that sound weird next to each other, you can't repeat words too much.

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.

In the football world, we throw around words like 'sacrifice,' 'hard work' and 'hero.'

Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words

The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when you read the words.

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera.

Use soft words in hard arguments.

All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasing to all, for there is no lack of sweet words.

I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.

All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.

Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum; Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'

It's hard to put into words, shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing. I write in words. I don write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors. I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.

Simply, if you're working with good material, then it's right there, and you don't have to try so hard as an actor; you don't have to do so much. Just let the material sit inside you and let it come out. Just say the words. That was the main thing that I learned from doing Aaron Sorkin's work - say the words, and everything else will happen.

It's hard to put what it means into words. It's just a dream I had when I was a little kid. It's not every day [you] get to make your lifelong dream come true. The point of doing things in life is you pursue a goal, and you go after it, you reach it and you pick another one. But they're hard to attain.

I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can't put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn't be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.

Your words surround you like fog and make you hard to see.

Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.

It is hard to put into words how grateful I am to continue my career with ESPN.

I want you to understand the words. I want you taste the words. I want you to love the words. Because the words are important. But they're only words. You leave them on the paper and you take the thoughts and put them into your mind and then you as an actor recreate them, as if the thoughts had suddenly occurred to you.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. ... Words such as dimension and field and infinity ... are not descriptions of reality, yet we accept them as such because everyone is sure someone else knows what the words mean.

Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.

Words are easy. It's convincing the heart that's hard.

One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created.

I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.

The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?

Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.