Top 1200 Important Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we go to school and run into literary Arabic as children. It sounds like a foreign language. The words for "house" or "table" or "lamp" are not the same as the words we use at home, and most of the other words are alien to children at school. Classical Arabic is one of the prisons of the Arab world.

The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

So when you're talking about lyrics in the context of music, it's not just about what the words mean, and what you were thinking about when you wrote it. It's not cognitive in that same way. It's almost like music turns words into touch, which is hard to describe, like the feeling of your shirt on your back. It's a pretty delicate thing to try to put into words. You just feel it.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

The yoga of discrimination can never be put into words, since the entire yoga exists beyond words.

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

I know pictures say a thousand words, but they also don't say millions of other words that need to be said.

When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

I realize that in everything I was saying, that underneath my words was essentially, "why can't we be less judgemental and more like me." Which is judgemental and arrogant, to try and change somebody else's perspective just so that the world can seem better for you. It's important that we have these contrasts in life - nothing was ever created by being the same.

Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which words and sentences had to be cut, and I accepted the cutting as if that was the way it should be. In fact, I will often take it on myself to save time and cut a few words. I call this ‘castrated writing’ - I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself before the surgeon raises his scalpel.

I found many ways around my dyslexia, but I still have trouble transforming words into sounds. I have to memorize and rehearse before reading anything aloud to avoid embarrassing myself by mispronouncing words.

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

It's better when you don't understand the words in music. Because when you don't understand the words, you have to listen to what somebody means, not what they're saying. And if they mean it.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.

Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.

It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it

Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely.

Self-care is important for all of us, especially because we're in what amounts to a nationally traumatic phase. I think part of it is to remember that there is more to opposition than opposition. In other words, it's not just about recognizing and cataloguing and publicizing all the things that are going wrong; it's about modeling and celebrating the alternative.

For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?

We've all been hurt by words before. So before you speak, think about how your words might affect someone else.

I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.

When I rapped for 'Manto', I used cuss words and no one objected because it was an adult movie. I feel cuss words are also a way of expression.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.

I believe that when we sing, we worship twice. We express our thoughts into words, and our words into song.

Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.

We think not in words but in shadows of words.

You have to figure out what's important and keep the main points, though I will swing a little outside the box. It affords me the freedom to find out who the character is, and it's been a positive technique for me. I'm not saying everyone should change words, but if you can do it with confidence, you may nail it.

Last words are only words.

It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

I didn’t realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. ‘I do,’ I managed to choke out in a nearly unintelligible whisper... When it was his turn to speak, the words rang clear and victorious. ‘I do,’ he vowed.

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

Words matter, words have import.

If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how the words look, particularly if the language uses different characters.

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.

I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.

Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.

If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.

Words have no word for words that are not true.

Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.