Top 1200 Small Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

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.'

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

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

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

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

Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.

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.

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.

As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the Surfaces of small Planets than in those of great ones in proportion to their bulk, and small Bodies are agitated much more by electric attraction than great ones; so the smallness of the Rays of Light may contribute very much to the power of the Agent by which they are refracted.

'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.

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?

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

You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first, hunger is not wrong.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy, growing the middle class, and creating innovative products and services.

Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.

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.

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.

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.

I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible.

Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it.

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

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

I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are printed so small even Superman would be nervous. And you’re reading from the Bible. It’s not like you can just make something up and improvise. “A reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians. Uhhh. Dear Corinthians, … How was your weekend? Sure is hot here. Uh, tell Jesus ‘Hey.’ This is the word of the Lord.

I do theoretical particle physics. We're trying to understand the most basic structure of matter. And the way you do that is you have to look at really small distances. And to get to small distances, you need high energies.