Top 1200 True Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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.'

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

When people do things to make your dream come true, you owe them in one way or another. Everyone understands that for every dream that comes true for you, there might not be a dream coming true for someone else. When we trade one wish for another, there's a price to pay. It works like that

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

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.

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

As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.

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

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

My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words, but by their deeds that ye shall know them" -pointing out that if I was a true atheist, I would not permit the public schools of America to force him to read the Bible and say prayers against his will. He was right.

'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.