Top 1200 Mean Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

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.

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.

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

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

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

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.'

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

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.

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

Words have no word for words that are not true.

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 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.

Last words are only words.

What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.

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

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

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

It's not fiction's job to be photographically representative of reality. If I want to make a fictional world where there's no kindness, this doesn't mean I believe there's no kindness in the real world. In fact, what it may mean is that I very much value kindness. Like if you make a painting in which only greens are allowed, it wouldn't mean you don't believe in blue.

I wish that people would take the time to show people that they are important in their lives, either at work, or at home. Too many times people take others for granted, and I think that needs to change. People are so much nicer and willing to help you if you use those two little words that mean so much . . . 'Thank You!'

I mean I love movement. I mean the energy that comes from the way I move. We get energy from how we move. I mean the control I get from knowing everything about how my body feels and how it is working.

Words matter, words have import.

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

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

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.

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

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

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.

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.

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.

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

We think not in words but in shadows of words.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

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

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

It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.

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

I think my favorite two words are 'true blue.' I think those words are really important, and the spirit of them has been lost.

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

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

We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.

'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.

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?

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.

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

God’s words trump all opinions, including mine, and in the end, I believe God’s words lead to life.

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.

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.

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

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